The goal is to develop artificial whisker arrays for engineering applications. Mitra J. Hartmann, assistant professor of biomedical and mechanical engineering, and Joseph H. Solomon, a graduate ...

Upon discovering the morphology of the harbor seal’s whisker under a microscope, marine biologists were very excited to postulate its role in the seal’s excellent hunting abilities. Like many mammals, ...

Inventors, designers and engineers are constantly cribbing from Mother Nature, building new-school robots inspired by old-school biology. Let’s take a look at some of the latest, greatest, and ...

Among the many reasons humans are bizarre among mammals (the dearth of body hair, the bipedalism, the fact that someone invented the turducken) is a sad shortcoming: You and I don’t have sensory ...

Dual-triangular electrode layout with MXene/silicone nanocomposite achieves quite competitive omnidirectional force detection (threshold: 0.024 N) and angular resolution (5°) using only two electrodes ...

Source: Kitty Terwolbeck, via Wikimedia Commons. Whiskers aren’t just decorative. Whisker touch is an active sensory system. Most mammals have whiskers and a few, like rats and shrews, are whisker ...