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Artificial intelligence can help highway departments find bats roosting under bridges

  • Written by Tianshu Li, Research Assistant in Systems Engineering, University of Virginia
Artificial intelligence can help highway departments find bats roosting under bridgesCrowds gather at dusk in Austin, Texas, to watch some 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats emerge to feed from their roost under the Congress Avenue Bridge.Jeff Haynes/AFP via Getty Images

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