A group of European researchers including Agnes Guillot from France’s Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics have created a mousey robot called Psikharpax. Psikharpax is being touted as the robot of the next generation and it would be able to scout around the lab fearlessly and avoid being destroyed and it would “learn” to protect itself and “perceive” environment around it.

The futuristic robot has been created in a mouse-like form based on a biological mouse in order to design and create future robots that not can stop depending on humans for sustaining themselves. Most of the robots we have right now are used in industrial settings or to amuse children and rarely are they used in real life in a way organisms can sustain themselves.

Thus, Psikharpax is unique as it mimics biological functioning. It has cameras in place of eyes, microphones in place of ears, sensors in place of whiskers and a whole of software which function as the nervous system. The mousey robot can be a prototype for future robots which can be sent on interplanetary explorations and also to help people. The prototype has just been launched.

Via: Physorg