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Robotic Bat
NC State has been working on a new MAV or micro-aerial vehicle project, a robotic bat. Using a shape-memory metal alloy for the joints and powerful muscle wires, they hope to emulate a real bat as closely as possible. They hope to better understand flapping flight and also create a surveillance tool that would scare [...]