Nightmarish Bat Bot – IOTW Report

Nightmarish Bat Bot

Roboticists from University of Illinois and Caltech have demonstrated how far they have advanced their design of a robotic flyer that is based on the natural design of bats.  The bat bot has wings made of a thin stretchable membrane and carbon fiber struts to flex and redirect its wings to perform simple maneuvers. The thing weighs a little over 3 ounces and can fly short distances.

Their next goal is to have the thing perch, like a real bat, and conserve energy while it waits for instructions (or spies on those who don’t know they are being observed).  The military applications for a silent electronic flyer are numerous.

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Watch it do simple flight maneuvers Here

You know they tried using real bats in WWII, just wait till they load these things up with a powerful micro computer and get the cost of production down on these things.

 

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