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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."

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  1. GNAA Research Division exposes Zionist plot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  2. What the fuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, why do you think evolution gave us eyes and 3-D visual brain power? It's much more effective to use vision and realtime 3D processing when in relative low density than sound based ranging. For instance, how would you know something is wet, soft or alive with sound alone?
     
    Oh and can a bat see when I'm drunk?

  3. Um... by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what?

  4. Does it go... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BANG! ZAP! PHOOM!

    ?

  5. Just don't arm it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fish, Please reenter the water, you have 20 seconds to comply"

    "Okay, I'm getting in!"

    "Unable to read from Infrared device, abort, retry, ignore?"

    "What? Uhh, Abort!! Abort!!"

    "Unable to close application, terminate now, or wait another five seconds?"

    "Terminate! Stop! Halt! Please, goddamit!"

  6. Re:Just don't have the robot bat fly into my house by squidfood · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I've had six bats show up in my house over the years...

    And we were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert.

  7. Re:I wonder.. by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hopefully this isn't too far off-topic, but - why did Batman never incorporate sonar or electronic sensors in his costume? It would help to have some way to detect things in the dark. And he has the ears already. Seems to me to be a natural.

  8. fu3k? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic