Bat Bots At Your Service
Wednesday Series: Robotic Innovation Addressing the World's Most Pressing Needs Flying service Bat Bots. Tiny aerial robots are being developed for multiple uses such as first responders at disaster scenes and to fetch objects for the elderly and hospital patients. It's another example of life saving and life enhancing innovation addressing some of the world's pressing needs. Bat Bots Take Off The concept is elegantly simple. Bats are marvelous flying machines. Their agility and dexterity are unique. For years, roboticists have tried and failed to create bat bots. Until now. Two separate research teams, the industrial automation company Festo and a combined group from NASA and California Institute of Technology, have launched bat bots. NASA-Caltech High Fliers Bat-like flight is the Holy Grail of robotics. That's because of the wing/body complexity and the aerodynamic performance. Bats have the most sophisticated wings in the animal kingdom.