blog posts One of the problems with bats, if you’re a robotics expert, is that they have so many joints. Feb 6, 2017 11:30 am by National Public RadioIllinois in the News Share on Facebook Tweet Email Images NPR (Feb. 3) That’s what robotics researchers at Illinois and the California Institute of Technology quickly learned when they set out to build a robot version of the flying mammal. Share on Facebook Tweet Email