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Bats Inspiring Future Micro Unmanned Aircraft
coondoggie writes "It's not the first time researchers have tried to emulate flapping as a way to fly aircraft, but US Air Force-funded researchers are now looking at how bats move to help them develop future micro-aircraft. According to these researchers, birds, bats, and insects have some highly varied mechanical properties that researchers have so far not utilized in engineering flight vehicles. The idea is to reproduce bat mechanics and develop technology could lead to small, remote controlled aircraft able to move in places where fixed-wing aircraft have a hard time — like the interiors of buildings, caves, or tunnels."
But bats have always appeared to me to be very ungraceful in their flight.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but their motion has always seem sort of chaotic.
I suppose that's also what makes them so nimble.
is that a quasi-haiku?
I couldn't but think of the scene in the 5Th Element were the bugged cock roach craws onto the table.
Rodenthopter.
-Peter
It's not the first time researchers have tried to emulate fapping as a way to fly aircraft,
Or is it just... Oh... it is just me...?
Damn. I need a girlfriend!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
The robotic bat-based UAV sounds like a load of eGuano to me.....
Multi-million dollar project that can be defeated by a $100 shotgun and a $.50 shell. Real clever.....
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....