A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), reveals the secret to the ...
And they are no evolutionary accident: whiskers, surrounded by follicles on their base has “mechanoreceptors” that help expand the animal’s sense of touch. They are tactile sensory organs that help ...
In A Nutshell Elephant whiskers have “physical intelligence”: Three built-in gradients (geometry, porosity, and stiffness) work together to amplify touch signals and encode contact location without ...