Elephant seals are being used as nature's artificial intelligence to monitor the health of the oceans -- especially the little-known "twilight zone," an ecosystem abundant with fish that could soon be ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A zookeeper feeling the whiskers that cover an Asian elephant’s trunk. To examine how the elephant trunk whiskers work, engineers ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Katherine Kuchenbecker (left) and Andrew Schulz (right) with a 3D-printed replica of an elephant's trunk hair, which helped the ...
Dr. Katherine Kuchenbecker, a roboticist from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), was walking down a hallway tapping the railings, walls, and columns with a “wand” her student, ...
A research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems discovered that the secret to the elephant’s amazing sense of touch is in its unusual whiskers. Their fascinating findings were ...
Stuttgart – 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 ...