Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
#robotics #biomimicry #science #engineering #bats
In this video, I talk to Rolf Müller about his work developing bioinspired robots. Rolf Müller is the Raymond E. and Shirley B. Lynn Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Bioinspired Science and Technology Center at Virginia Tech.
Mueller's group seeks to develop robots that can mimic the superior sensing abilities and mobility of bats that are able to hunt in dense natural environments. Bats have the most complicated flight apparatus across all biological and engineered systems that fly with about 20 discrete degrees of freedom in each wing. Similarly to the complexity of the wings, bats have about 20 muscles on each ear that deform the shape of the pinna as it diffracts the incoming biosonar echoes. Biomimetic reproductions are an important tools for understanding these complex mechanical systems for mobility and sensing.
#robotics #biomimicry #science #engineering #bats
In this video, I talk to Rolf Müller about his work developing bioinspired robots. Rolf Müller is the Raymond E. and Shirley B. Lynn Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Bioinspired Science and Technology Center at Virginia Tech.
Mueller's group seeks to develop robots that can mimic the superior sensing abilities and mobility of bats that are able to hunt in dense natural environments. Bats have the most complicated flight apparatus across all biological and engineered systems that fly with about 20 discrete degrees of freedom in each wing. Similarly to the complexity of the wings, bats have about 20 muscles on each ear that deform the shape of the pinna as it diffracts the incoming biosonar echoes. Biomimetic reproductions are an important tools for understanding these complex mechanical systems for mobility and sensing.
