Friday, October 6, 2006

Robots could sense shapes with whiskers

Seals track prey with them, rats sense nearby objects with them and robots could soon be using whiskers in a similar way to see in the dark and avoid obstacles, researchers said on Wednesday.
They developed an array of robotic whiskers that move in any pattern over an object just as they do on living creatures.

Full story is here
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/10/05/robot.whiskers.reut/index.html

2 comments:

Amani AbuQdais أماني أبوقديس said...

wow!(^_^) see? so hamsters and other rodents have their own contribution to technology! =D

Dr. Taisir Eldos said...

Thati's why I posted this ! it was to honor your little fellow