The AMOUSE (The Artificial Mouse Project) is a robot mouse designed to study the mouse behavior and the integration of somatosensory (whiskers) and visual sensory modalities.

This robotic mouse is built on top of a Khepera robot base (C) and includes an omniderectional camera (A) and artificial whisker sensors (B).

The whiskers are designed to emulate real rat whiskers movements. Rats move their whiskers in two dimensions. However, most of the time they use synchronized forward/backward sweeps. Therefore, this robot has simplified the model to a one degree of freedom movement. Additionally, every whisker is plugged into a capacitor microphone able to follow high-frequency movements of the whisker hair.

More information about this robot can be found in this paper. And this website: http://www.amouse.de/

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