The bat swarm flies in front of the setting sun For the AIRFOILS project, the Boston University IML team, led by Dr. Kenneth Sebesta and headed by Dr. John Baillieul, created the Batcopter. The ...

Researchers at Boston University have built a device, informally known as the Batcopter, that is attempting to figure out how large swarms of bats manage not to fly independently and randomly without ...

There are millions of Brazilian Free-tailed bats living in caves across Texas, and every night, those bats are somehow able to swarm through the air without crashing into one another. The researchers ...

If you wander out into a gaggle of fellow humans in total darkness, chances are you're going to bump into one or two. Such is not the case for bats, which do much of their hunting after the sun sets.