Artificial Whiskers
Recently, researchers have begun to build artificial whiskers of a variety of types, both to help them to understand how biological whiskers work and as a possibly useful tactile sense for robots. These efforts range from the fairly abstract, through feature-specific models (Sculpted Face, AMouse), to attempts to reproduce complete whiskered animals in robot form (ScratchBot and ShrewBot, both robots by Bristol Robotics Laboratory). An upcoming article at Scholarpedia will discuss the history of Whiskered Robots in detail.
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