WORCESTER, Mass. — Don't be fooled by the fog machine, spooky lights and fake bats: the robotics lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute lab isn't hosting a Halloween party.

What You Need To Know

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are developing tiny drones inspired by bats for search and rescue missions

The aerial robots use echolocation, like bats, to navigate in dark and challenging conditions

Assistant professor Nitin Sanket and his team aim to create small, affordable, and energy-efficient drones that can operate where and when current drones can't

While drones are becoming more common in search and rescue, Sanket and researchers elsewhere want to move beyond the manually operated individual robots being used today

Instead, it’s a testing ground for tiny drones that c

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