Whiskers are present on most mammals, and whisker specialists, such as rodents,
pinnipeds and insectivores, can actively position their whiskers to efficiently guide …

Whiskers have recently received an increasing interest as touch sensors capable of
providing rich information about the close environment of an agent. Many different animal …

Whiskers are widespread in the animal kingdom because they play an essential role in
adaptive behavior. In spite of the enormous potential of whiskers, they have yet to be …

Eyes may be 'the window to the soul'in humans, but whiskers provide a better path to the
inner lives of rodents. The brain has remarkable abilities to focus its limited resources on …

All small mammals have prominent facial whiskers that they employ as tactile sensors to
guide navigation and foraging in complex habitats. Nocturnal, arboreal mammals tend to …

Active touch can be described as the control of the position and movement of tactile sensing
systems by reaching out and exploring—sensing by “touching” as opposed to being …

Active sensing is the process of moving sensors to extract task-specific information. Whisker
touch is often referred to as an active sensory system as whiskers are moved with purposeful …

Many mammals forage and burrow in dark constrained spaces. Touch through facial
whiskers is important during these activities, but the close quarters makes whisker …

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 …

Rodent whisking behavior provides active touch as input into a widely studied model system
of information processing and behavior. We previously developed a simple optoelectronic …