Active touch sensing

31 January  to 02 February 2011 Kavli Royal Society International Centre

Organised by: Professor Tony Prescott, Professor Alan Wing, Professor Mathew Diamond and Professor John Nicholls FRS

Active touch is finding out about the world by reaching out and exploring—sensing by ‘touching’ as opposed to ‘being touched’. This meeting is about the behavioural, physiological and neuronal underpinnings of active touch in a range of species, including man, and about building robots with biomimetic tactile sensing systems that can help us understand our own sense of touch.

• Speakers and Chairs include:

Professor Ehud Ahissar, Professor Antonio Bicchi, Professor Michael Brecht, Professor Kenneth Catania, Professor Christopher Comer, Professor Guido Dehnhardt, Dr Chris Dijkerman, Dr Volker Durr, Dr Marc Ernst, Professor Mitra Hartmann, Professor Vincent Hayward, Professor Astrid Kappers, Professor Roberta Klatzky, Professor Tony Pipe and Professor Michael Turvey.

A draft programme is available to download here.