Introducing: Shrewbot. We're doing two things here: using robots to test ideas about how brains work and using biology to develop new robots. Shrewbot is the size of a small dog, can move its head around, runs on batteries, and has omnidirectional wheels--and no eyes. Its only sense is touch, from its plastic whiskers. Its snout has 18 of them, which move back and forth five times a second. (Real shrews whisk twice as fast.) When a whisker touches something, it bends backward, pushing a magnet a...
Introducing: Shrewbot. We're doing two things here: using robots to test ideas about how brains work and using biology to develop new robots. Shrewbot is the size of a small dog, can move its head around, runs on batteries, and has omnidirectional wheels--and no eyes. Its only sense is touch, from its plastic whiskers. Its snout has 18 of them, which move back and forth five times a second. (Real shrews whisk twice as fast.) When a whisker touches something, it bends backward, pushing a magnet a...
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