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Thread: Shrewbot, BIOTACT project (BIOmimetic Technology for vibrissal Active Touch)

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    "A General Classifier of Whisker Data Using Stationary Naive Bayes: Application to BIOTACT Robots"

    by Nathan F. Lepora, Charles W. Fox, Mat Evans, Ben Mitchinson, Asma Motiwala, J. Charlie Sullivan, Martin J. Pearson, Jason Welsby, Tony Pipe, Kevin Gurney, Tony J. Prescott
    September 2, 2011

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    Article "Biomimetic vibrissal sensing for robots"

    by Martin J. Pearson, Ben Mitchinson, J. Charles Sullivan, Anthony G. Pipe, Tony J. Prescott
    November 12, 2011

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    Article "Robo Rat"
    More-realistic whiskered robots are better able to navigate dark or dusty environments, while providing insights into rodent sensory processing.

    by Jef Akst
    April 1, 2012

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    Article "How rats can see in the dark: Rodents use whiskers in the same way humans use their hands to feel their way around"
    Can deliberately change how they sense their environment using their facial whiskers in new environments
    Show that rats are cleverer than previously thought

    by Mark Prigg
    July 8, 2014
    Last edited by Airicist2; 6th February 2023 at 17:38.

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    A robot inspired by the Etruscan shrew called Shrewbot

    Uploaded on Jan 19, 2012

    As featured on BBC 1 - The One Show, 20 January 2012

    The Etruscan shrew is nocturnal, relying on its whiskers to find, track and capture its prey - often the same size as itself. The efficiency of this tiny creature has inspired scientists to look at ways of replicating the shrew's whiskers to enable robots to find their way around without the use of vision.

    The Shrewbot has been developed at Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) in collaboration with the University of Sheffield Active Touch Laboratory as part of the BIOTACT project, Professor Tony Pipe (UWE Bristol) and Professor Tony Prescott (University of Sheffield) are working on the Shrewbot project with a number of partners.

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    Robot Whiskers

    Published on Jan 14, 2014

    Building a computer model of the human brain isn't enough for cognitive roboticist Murray Shanahan. Meet "Shrewbot," the robot that uses whiskers to get around, patterned on those of the Etruscan shrew.

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    Visual-Tactile sensory map calibration of a biomimetic whiskered robot

    Uploaded on May 20, 2016

    “Visual-Tactile Sensory Map Calibration of a Biomimetic Whiskered Robot,” by Tareq Assaf, Emma D. Wilson, Sean Anderson, Paul Dean, John Porrill, and Martin J. Pearson from the University of Bristol, University of the West of England, and University of Sheffield, U.K. Presented at ICRA 2016.

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