Bug-eyes and bat-ears for drones

By Adam Stanhope in Everything Else on May 17, 2007 at 5:53 pm

Bats!

From Danger Room:
Military researchers are working hard to give their robots the powers and shapes of animals. The latest addition to the menagerie: teeny-tiny drones that can see like bugs, and hear like bats.

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  1. Aramax
    May 17th, 2007 at 9:17 pm

    I was making a search for a post on the same subject and I found the pigeons with brain implants.

    What I was searching for was teleguided machinegun on wheels that they used in midle orient recently. What’s more troubling with this story is that they still state that they’re not “evil” and that they’re doing all this for the good of mankind.

    It’s sickening.

  2. anonymous
    May 17th, 2007 at 9:22 pm

    in WWII there were some (aborted? executed but botched?) plans to use bats (and birds?) with BOMBS attached (little bombs).

    the bats pictured are (possibly) fruit bats — they do not have very developed hearing as they have keen eyesight and amazing noses (for smelling/seeing…FRUIT).

    bats that use echolocation for visualization of their environment have really amazing ears and noses.

  3. Chris
    May 17th, 2007 at 10:42 pm

    I just want to know are those it’s balls? They’re huuuuuge!

  4. BoB
    May 18th, 2007 at 4:44 am

    roflmao @ chris!
    i was wondering the same thing!

  5. Sid Morrison
    May 18th, 2007 at 9:36 am

    That one bat has nads so large, it’s amazing it can fly.

  6. gonz
    May 18th, 2007 at 5:38 pm

    balls in the belfry

  7. Nora
    May 19th, 2007 at 12:19 am

    Oh lordie… its a bat that will get tangled in your hair and teabag you at the same time! o_O

  8. ted
    May 20th, 2007 at 2:36 pm

    If those are its nads, those tight costumes must be murder on Batman.


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