But a new study sheds light on this question. It reveals that bats don’t just listen to echoes the way we once thought, but also use something called acoustic flow velocity to judge their speed and ...

Bats can fly through total darkness, dodge obstacles at high speed, and weave through caves without crashing. They do it through echolocation, where they send out bursts of sound and use the returning ...

To help small aerial robots navigate in the dark and other low-visibility environments, my colleagues and I developed an ultrasound-based perception system inspired by bat echolocation. Current robots ...