Abstract: Bat flight has been an underdeveloped area of bio-inspired robotics because of the vast complexities of biological bat flight and the over 40 degrees of freedom present in their bodies. The ...

Spin Master's Gotham Guardian Playset gives you three ways to ride shotgun with Batman. (Illustration: Yahoo Entertainment; photos courtesy of Spin Master) Move over, Optimus Prime: the Dark Knight is ...

Ever since robots were first introduced in Karel Čapek's 1920 play "Rossum's Universal Robots," we've imagined them as being nearly indistinguishable from biological life. Fiction is filled with all ...

A trio of researchers at the University of Illinois has developed a robot that flies. It also resembles a bat. That?s right: a flying robot bat. In addition to sounding like something out of a comic ...

Back in elementary school, robotic animal toys were all the rage. Most of them performed a few preprogramed tricks or could be guided by remote control. Others, like the Furby, were just plain ...

Inspired by the agility and efficiency of bat flight, engineers at Caltech and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a winged robot they say could dramatically increase the ...

The Bat Bot, a three-ounce flying robot, has been claimed to be more agile at getting into treacherous places than standard drones. (Alireza Ramezani/University of Illinois) WASHINGTON — Holy drone, ...

WASHINGTON-Holy drone, Batman! 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 ...

A robotic bat with soft, articulated wings can mimic the key flight patterns of biological bats and may be key to unlocking how future flying drones operate. Researchers at the University of Illinois ...

Bats have long inspired scientists to create robots that mimic how these animals take flight. In a new study, a team of robotics experts from California and Chicago set out to build their own robot ...