The radio controlled bat, will be equipped with micro sensors that can detect, chemical, nuclear and biological agents. And unlike tiny airplanes and helicopters, it will have better maneuverability and the size to complete missions without being detected.

Imagine bats spread out in a large area laying in wait, for the slightest hint of any agent, ready to sound the alarm. I think it would be the perfect early warning system for such attacks and could help save lives. It could also help detect the spread of agents, and get unaffected people and first responders out of harms way.

A prototype of the radio controlled bat is still under construction. Researchers at the State University of North Carolina is using what nature has given them. By modeling there prototype on the skeletal structure of a bat, they get rid of the traditional fixed wing design and replace it with a flapping motion.

The prototype skeleton weighs less than ten grams and uses a super elastic metal alloy, that allows the same muscular moments of a living bat and always returns to its original shape. The radio controlled bat is nearing completion, the last thing to do is construct a flexible membrane to cover and form the wings.

This amazing new design features a special metal wire, that contracts when current is placed through it and reacts with the elastic metal alloy muscles causing them to contract also. This coupled with an exact copy of a bats skeletal and muscular structure, always the radio controlled bat to fly just like the real thing.