Birds do it. Bats do it. Now even educated people do it. Echolocation is the process used by certain animals to identify what lies ahead of them, by emitting sounds that bounce off objects.
Now a team of researchers has created an algorithm that could give the rest of us a chance to see with sound.
Lead study author Ivan Dokmanic of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Switzerland says the project started with a question: “Is it possible to just produce a sound and be like Batman or just hear the shape of the room?”
Dokmanic and his team made it happen.
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