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Bat-Bot Knows Agapanthus from Dianthus

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It doesn’t fly, but this Bat-Bot has sonar and can distinguish one plant type from another. What’s more, the ears move around like a real bat’s. Which means that this research from the Active Perception Lab at the University of Antwerp in Belgium will at the very least lead to a Furby upgrade in the near future.

Biomimetic Bat-Bot [Treehugger]

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