£5.9m has been awarded to the BIOTACT project to develop innovative artificial touch technologies. Bristol Robotics Laboratory is one of nine research groups across seven countries who will be collaborating to develop 'whiskered' robots, mimicking rodents who gather information by flicking their whiskers back and forth at high speeds.
From the huge range of practical applications, you might find 'active touch' sensor robots working underground or in dangerous disaster relief situations, such as finding their way through rubble. You might even find them in your vacuum cleaner, optimising cleaning textured surfaces…
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