International Bat Week will be observed Oct. 24 to 31, 2025, including educational events and outings in Wisconsin.

They’re a vital source of renewable energy, but wind turbines can be a danger to bats. Bat-detection technology could protect the flying mammals, while keeping wind turbines turning.

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts are developing small aerial robots that rely on sound ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute engineers are creating palm-sized drones that use echolocation to navigate in darkness, smoke and storms ...

A robotics engineering professor is building tiny, autonomous flying robots that can use sound waves to navigate in total darkness like bats.

Deep underwater and high in the night sky, creatures use sound to see what eyes cannot. Through evolutionary biology and acoustic science, this episode reveals how echolocation emerged in bats, whales ...

Panama's tiny fringe-lipped bats, weighing just 30 grams, hunt with the patience and precision of lions, defying traditional ...

WPI researchers are enabling aerial robots, smaller than 100 mm and weighing less than 100 g, to navigate without relying on vision.

WPI's PeAR Bat uses ultrasonic echolocation like bats to navigate smoke and darkness for autonomous rescue missions ...

The Bat Brigade meets weekly at UW-Madison's Lakeshore Nature Preserve from April through October to collect data on different species of bats.