Mesmerized by how bats ‘dance in the air,’ this new Northeastern professor built a robotic one
As a postdoctoral researcher, Alireza Ramezani and his colleagues created a drone that can flap its wings, glide, make sharp turns, and swoop down. Now as a faculty member at Northeastern, he’s focused on building a next-generation version whose maneuverability, light weight, and small frame could improve surveillance and be safer to fly near humans than today’s drones.
