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

According to past experiments, big-eared bats use leaves as acoustic mirrors to hunt silent insects. The theory stated that ...

Popular Science highlighted a University of Cincinnati study that used engineering-inspired biology to examine how bats find ...

A 301 mg soft robot jumps continuously under constant light without batteries or electronics, using snap-through buckling and self-shadowing to create an autonomous feedback loop. (Nanowerk Spotlight) ...

While much insight has been gleaned from how grasshoppers hop, their gliding prowess has mostly been overlooked. Now ...

(Left to right) NTU Research Fellow Dr Tran Ngoc Phuoc Thanh; Senior Research Fellow Dr Le Duc Long; Prof Hirotaka Sato; Research Engineers Jean Allen Academia and Mya Myet Thwe Chit; and Project ...

MIT engineers reveal an insect-scale flying robot that can perform rapid, agile maneuvers - matching key aspects of insect flight - by using a neural-network controller distilled from a robust control ...

Sean Humbert is unlocking the biological secrets of the common housefly to make major advances in robotics and uncrewed aerial systems (UAS). A professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical ...

About five years ago, a bizarre idea occurred to me. At the time, I was designing complex electronic circuits to mimic a small portion of an insect brain. These circuits would be created on a tiny ...