Robot Bat With Echolocation

productdose.com writes "A robotic bat head that can emit and detect ultrasound in the band of frequencies used by the world's bats will give echolocation research a huge boost. Sonar in water is a mature field, but sonar in air is far less advanced. Whenever a robot team wants to build an autonomous robot they look at sonar first, but they quickly run into problems due to the simple nature of commercial sonar systems, and switch to vision or laser-ranging. The IST project CIRCE hopes that the research they can now do with the robotic bat will lead to more sophisticated sonar systems being used for robot navigation and other applications."

Comments

So, what does your robot do?

[cryptoz]

It collects information about its surroundings, evaluates it, and then discards the data in favour of running into un-seen objects.

I remember this one...

[TripMaster Monkey]

I saw this one on Loony Tunes...the robot bat is dressed up as an attractive female bat, and lures the lovestruck male bat offscreen, where it then explodes, charring the male bat most humourously.

At least that's the way I remember it. Stupid closed-head injury...

Robot bats??

[Vombatus]

Its just not cricket.

I for one...

[JonXP]

I, for one, welcome our new robotic homerun hitting overlords.