Check our this Youtube video of the amazing Scratchbot built my my colleagues at the Bristol Robotics Lab:
This robot not only has artificial whiskers, that 'whisk' just like real rodents' whiskers, but even more amazingly it processes the sense data from the whiskers with a high-fidelity electronic model of the barrel cortex - the small part of the rat's brain that processes sensory input from its whisker's. If you look carefully you can see the micro-vibrissae - the small extra-sensitive non-whisking whiskers at the robot's snout.
Here's the full story on the EU Cordis news service.
woooooooow :)
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