(CN) — Bats might not lead the most exciting lives, but they do have one real-life superpower that aids in their evening hunts for insect dinners: echolocation. In a new study published by the ...

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To help small aerial robots navigate in the dark and other low-visibility environments, my colleagues and I developed an ultrasound-based perception system inspired by bat echolocation. Current robots ...

Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over kilometer-scale distances using echolocation alone. Echolocating bats have ...

The researchers: “For the first time, we have shown that bats are able to navigate great distances in open areas with their eyes closed, using only echolocation; they even create a mental acoustic map ...

Most of us associate echolocation with bats. These amazing creatures are able to chirp at frequencies beyond the limit of our hearing, and they use the reflected sound to map the world around them. It ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists from diverse universities conducted controlled experiments to determine how big-eared bats detect insects sitting on ...

P. kuhlii above a spectrogram of its echolocation sequence. Source: Eran Amichai, used with permission. Many bats navigate using echolocation—emitting high-frequency sound pulses and analyzing the ...

Animals like bats and dolphins navigate the world using echolocation, but there’s also another animal capable of such a feat: ...