Behold Bat Bot, the First Flying Robot Bat. It mimics the flying mammal and doesn't even need to be remotely controlled. By William Herkewitz Published: Feb 01, 2017 2:00 PM EST.

In what would make an excellent sidekick for Batman, scientists have built a fascinating, unconventional flying robot that moves its wings and flies just like a bat. Covered with a thin, silicon ...

Bat Bot doesn't have quite so many joints, but its advanced construction makes one of the most flexible autonomous flying robots to date. Other biomimetic robots are often clunky, or limited in ...

It's name is Bat Bot, or B2 for short, and it gets away with just nine joints. "Arguably, bats have the most sophisticated powered flight mechanism among animals," the paper states.

Bat Bot is the biomimetic flying soft robot we deserve. Devin Coldewey. 2:58 PM PST · February 1, 2017. If you’ve ever seen a bat in flight, you know how impressive their aerial acrobatics can ...

BAT BOT A silicone membrane stretched over a carbon fiber skeleton helps this bat robot perform aerial acrobatics.. A. Ramezani, S.-J. Chung and S. Hutchinson/Science Robotics 2017 ...

What they ended up constructing is the 93-gram Bat Bot B2. It’s a fully self-contained robot, with an on-board computer and sensors that help it fly and know its position and the relative ...

Mechanical masterminds have spawned the Bat Bot, a soaring, sweeping and diving robot that may eventually fly circles around other drones. Because it mimics the unique and more flexible way bats ...

Meet the world’s newest animal robot: Bat Bot. Researchers have successfully simulated the movement of a bat’s wings, one of the animal kingdom’s most complex motions, and turned their ...

Unlike Bat Bot, a winged robot inspired by bat movements, this little wheeled robot out of Tel Aviv University looks nothing like a bat. But it acts like one.

Caltech aerospace professor Soon-Jo Chung holds the 'Bat Bot' flying robot, which mimics the flight patterns of the actual animal. One of the problems with bats, if you're a robotics expert, is that ...

The cover of Science Robotics featuring an image of the 'Bat Bot' flying robot. One of the problems with bats, if you're a robotics expert, is that they have so many joints. That's what robotics ...