Bat Bot was created to be a flying drone that mimics the unique way bats fly and move. The drone, only 3 ounces in prototype form was designed to help in disaster areas and construction sites.

A mechanical engineer from Stanford created a "bird-like" robot that uses legs inspired by those of a peregrine falcon to perfectly land on stuff. The post Flying Bird Bot Uses Its Falcon-Like ...

Bat Bot was limited to short-duration flights, but “we didn’t want to lose or break our robot by flying it outside,” Chung wrote.

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 ...

Firefighters tackling a fire, and the Dragon Firefighter—a robot that could one day be used to combat blazes too dangerous for humans. kckate16 / Tadokoro Laboratory, Tohoku University, Japan ...

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 ...