A new class of aircraft developed with Boeing, it will be the first military plane designed and manufactured in the country ...

Solving the puzzle of bat flight is not just an entertaining exercise. Researchers contend that a robot that can fly with soft, flexible wings and that can turn, mid-air, on a dime, will be safer ...

This intricately built robot from Caltech JPL can actually fly just like a bat, and its creators think it's a design with long-term advantages.

In what might make an excellent sidekick for Batman, scientists have built a fascinating, unconventional flying robot that moves its wings and flies just like a bat.

Robotics experts at Caltech and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have created a robot that mimics the flight patterns of bats, including swerving and diving.

The RoboBat-- real name-- was created through a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant given to four engineering professors at UIUC in 2014 to create a drone inspired by biology in order ...

This dual functionality will help cut down on the robo-bat's weight, and allow the robot to respond quickly to changing conditions – such as a gust of wind – as perfectly as a real bat." ...