Science 360 (NSF podcast, April 14) -- Engineers from the University of Illinois have created a self-guided flying bat bot looks much like the real thing, with artificial joints and skin. “Our work demonstrates one of the most advanced designs to date of a self-contained flapping-winged aerial robot with bat morphology that is able to perform autonomous flight,” explained Alireza Ramezani, a postdoctoral researcher at the Coordinated Science Laboratory who is the first author of the cover article appearing in AAAS Science Robotics.