Most of us associate echolocation with bats. These amazing creatures are able to chirp at frequencies beyond the limit of our hearing, and they use the reflected sound to map the world around them. It ...

To help small aerial robots navigate in the dark and other low-visibility environments, my colleagues and I developed an ultrasound-based perception system inspired by bat echolocation. Current robots ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pod of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) swimming at the Las Cuevitas dive site in the Revillagigedo Archipelago. We ...

It may sound like a scene from Nosferatu, but research from the University of East Anglia shows that humans can use bat-like echolocation skills to judge the distance of objects. A study reveals that, ...

Daniel Kish has been blind since he was a baby but that hasn't stopped him living an incredibly active life that includes hiking and mountain-biking. To do this, he has perfected a form of human ...

Echolocation is a form of perception that bats, dolphins and some species of whales are known to use. It consists of emitting sounds and given the different rates in which the thus emitted sound waves ...