Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

It's a bird? It's a plane? It's a robot inspired by a vampire bat. In a paper published in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, researchers are proposing a new robot capable of both flying and walking.

Robots have had all kinds of deadly implements attached to them. Crushing arms, guns, flamethrowers, you name it. They're not lacking for ways to kill us. So did we really have to have a robot ...