Artificial Touch
The implementation of sensors, encoding and processing will take inspiration from the findings of the core competences on biological and computational tactile system. The implementation will have to take into account the different physical and computational substrate of artificial sensory systems, but capturing the basic principles observed in biological sensory systems. Given the evidence on the importance of precise spike timing for encoding of stimulus properties, this core competence will resort to neuromorphic spike-based and event-driven sensory encoding at the peripheral (transduction) level, as well as the relative spike-based computation to extract relevant information from the sensors, at the central processing level.