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It's the whiskers.
Posthuman Blues —
We can handle mechanical eyes, fingers and even claws. But forever-twitching whiskers, however necessary or helpful, are discomfitingly lifelike, casually erasing our preconceptions of "machine" and "organism" -- and something deep within the human psyche recoils from the resulting sense of dislocation, however slightly. [Follow me on Twitter.] ...
SCRATCHbot Robot Rat Whiskers Video
Science Fiction in the News —
SCRATCHbot Robot Rat Whiskers Video [image] SCRATCHbot is a robotic rat with whiskers . Created by researchers at University of Sheffield and the Bristol Robotics Lab, SCRATCHbot uses whiskers as part of their effort to create biologically-inspired artificial intelligence systems. ( Whiskered Robot Rat ) Last year, I wrote an article about the prototype for this robot; see BIOTACT Whiskered Robot Rat to see how rapidly robots evolve. Professor Tony Prescott, of the University of Sheffield's Department of Psychology, said: "Our project has reached a significant milestone in the development of actively-controlled, whisker-like ...
