Biomimetics is a research field that is achieving particular prominence through an explosion
of new discoveries in biology and engineering. The field concerns novel technologies …

Robotics is increasingly seen as a useful test bed for computational models of the brain
functional architecture underlying animal behavior. We provide an overview of past and …

The contribution of the body to cognition and control in natural and artificial agents is
increasingly described as “offloading computation from the brain to the body,” where the …

The study of biomimetic robots and that of animal behaviors are mutually-reinforcing and
inseparable. Animals, through long-term evolutionary processes, have developed innate …

In rats, the long facial whiskers (mystacial macrovibrissae) are repetitively and rapidly swept
back and forth during exploration in a behaviour known as 'whisking'. In this paper, we …

Since designing efficient tactile sensors for autonomous robots is still a challenge, this paper
proposes a perceptual system based on a bioinspired triboelectric whisker sensor (TWS) …

We implemented neuromorphic artificial touch and emulated the firing behavior of
mechanoreceptors by injecting the raw outputs of a biomimetic tactile sensor into an …

Whisker sensors are a class of tactile sensors that have recently attracted attention. Inspired
by mammals' whiskers known as mystacial vibrissae, they have displayed tremendous …

Active vibrissal touch can be used to replace or to supplement sensory systems such as
computer vision and, therefore, improve the sensory capacity of mobile robots. This paper …

Recognising familiar places is a competence required in many engineering applications that
interact with the real world such as robot navigation. Combining information from different …