Spying Bats The Latest Drone Technology
No doubt you have all heard of spy drones. They made an appearance or two in Iraq that were publicized and probably many others that weren’t. Now meet the latest in the drone arsenal, the Spy Bat. It’s mission is to gather information from urban combat zones and report this data back to the troops. Lucky engineers at the University of Michigan College of Engineering are charged with designing the sensors for this stealth bat. The director of the project, Kamal Sarabandi says, “Bats have a highly-attuned echolocation sense providing high-resolution navigation and sensing ability even in the dark, just as our sensor must be able to do.”
The engineering team expects many industrial and medical spin-offs from this project. I would imagine law enforcement might also be taking an interest in the Spy Bat.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:38 am
I thought I would only see this kind of stuff in the movie.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 6:30 am
Spying Bats The Latest Drone Technology…
…Now meet the latest in the drone arsenal, the Spy Bat. A six-inch robotic spy plane modeled after a bat would gather data from sights, sounds and smells in urban combat zones and transmit information back to a soldier in real time.
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