Robotic bat like the real thing

Popular Mechanics (Feb. 1) -- Inspired by nature, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Caltech have developed a self-contained robotic bat—dubbed Bat Bot—with soft, articulated wings that can mimic the key flight mechanisms of biological bats.They say it will aid efforts to understand how bats fly and could offer safety improvements on drones that use helicopter blades. Also: Wall Street Journal (Feb. 1), NBC News (Feb. 1), Daily Mail (UK, Feb. 1), Pulse Headlines (Feb. 1), Science Daily (Feb. 1), Fox News Tech (Feb. 1), Popular Science (Feb. 1), MarketWatch (Feb. 1), Inverse (Feb. 1), LiveScience (NSF, Feb. 1), IEEE Spectrum (Feb. 1), ScienceBlog (Feb. 1), Seeker (Feb. 1), R&D Magazine (Feb. 1), Pasadena Now (Jan. 27), Engadget (Feb. 1), The Associated Press (video, Feb.1), Toronto Sun (from The Associated Press; Feb. 1), MSN (from AP, Feb. 1), Yahoo Tech (from AP, Feb. 1), IFL Science (Feb. 1), Phys.Org (Feb.1), Tech Crunch (Feb. 1), ScienceNews (Feb. 1), GeekWire (Feb. 1), CNET (Feb. 1), Voice of America (Feb. 1), Inverse Innovation (Feb. 1), BBC News (Feb. 2), ZD Net (Feb. 2), Raw Story (Feb. 2), sUAS News (Feb. 2), 14U News (Feb. 2), iTech Post (Feb. 2), The Verge (Feb. 2), New Atlas (Feb. 2), Daily Disruption (Feb. 2), States Chronicle (Feb. 2), International Business Times (UK, Feb. 2), New Atlas (Feb. 2), Cosmos Magazine (Feb. 2), The Digital Circuit (blog, Feb. 2), Technabob (blog, Feb. 2), PBS News Hour (Feb. 2), The Telegraph (UK, Feb. 2), 3D Print.com (Feb. 2), Interesting Engineering (Feb. 3), Enstars (Feb. 3), Crazy Engineers (Feb. 3), Christian Science Monitor (Feb. 3), Wired (Feb. 3), National Public Radio (Feb. 3), Reuters (Feb. 6), Science 360 (podcast, Feb. 7), Electronics 360 (New York, Feb. 7), The Hindu (Chennai, India, Feb. 8).