Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have designed a robot that can fly and swoop like a bat. They hope the robot's design can help researchers improve the safety of drones.

Called Aerobat, it uses a combination of rigid and flexible 3D-printed materials designed to mimic the malleable wings of a bat. This aerial robot is designed to navigate in tight, confined spaces ...

Engineers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Caltech have spawned the "Bat Bot", a three-ounce flying robot which they say has more agility than standard drones. The three ...

When the producers of Batman: The Animated Series saw this in the script, they immediately recognized that a robot Batman was an episode all on its own. Thus was born "His Silicon Soul".