Like so many mini submarines equipped with sonar, they deftly navigate dark forests and caves by listening for the echoes of ...

A new study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute used a robot to mimic common big-eared bats' echolocation skills ...

Bats famously have an ultrasonic navigation system: they use their extremely sensitive hearing to orient themselves by emitting ultrasonic sounds and using the echoes that result to build up a picture ...

The range of human hearing goes up to about 20 kilohertz, which is fine for our purposes, but is pretty poor compared to plenty of other animal species. Dogs famously can hear up to about 60 kHz, and ...

(THE CONVERSATION) It is late at night, and we are silently watching a bat in a roost through a night-vision camera. From a nearby speaker comes a long, rattling trill. The bat briefly perks up and ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly ...