The way bats rapidly flap their wings in flight could inspire new designs of flying robots, according to a new study. Researchers studied how fruit bats use their wings to manipulate the air around ...

One of the problems with bats, if you're a robotics expert, is that they have so many joints. That's what robotics researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Caltech quickly ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – On a research cruise focused on marine mammals and seabirds, Oregon State University scientists earned an unexpected bonus: The first-ever documented sighting of a hoary bat ...

When it comes to building flying robots, there's a lot to be learned from the beasts of the air. And researchers have -- we've seen robots inspired by the birds and the bees. The bat, however, is a ...