Birds

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers developed a bat-inspired sensing and navigation system that allows palm-sized drones to move through smoke, fog, and visually degraded environments using ultrasound and lightweight onboard AI.

This paper looks at how robot swarms can move more smoothly by not only reacting to what nearby robots are doing now, but also by briefly predicting where they are about to move next.

If you’re the kind of person who can’t help finishing other peoples’ sentences for them, don’t worry; you can blame it on evolution.