A Robot That Navigates By Touch
This robot was designed to test how the brain works. Shrewbot is a small robot that runs on batteries, but has no eyes like most robots.Shrewbot has plastic whiskers that allow him sense/feel objects with his touch signals.he also has " a magnetic sensor detects the displacement and sends it to Shrewbot’s computer processor. Shrewbot uses these touch signals to create a picture of its environment and distinguish shapes and textures."
Tony J. Prescott, neuroscientist and director of the
Sheffield Centre for Robotics at the University of Sheffield
in the U.K. Prescott co-designed Shrewbot with the Bristol
Robotics Laboratory.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-07/blind-robot-navigates-touch-blueprint
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