The data that we have collected will be made available for public use as soon as possible - but only after we have analysed it and written our own papers from it. Some data should be ready to be made public very soon, enough to give most people more than enough idea of what we have achieved.

However, the more detailed scientific data will remain accessible only by consortium members for some time. This means that the data available is many months behind the project current status.

Here is a description of the different data types produced by each partner.

Listings of the data obtained for each species can be found through the links below:

A presentation of the main points of the project.

2002-2005: CIRCE (Chiroptera Inspired Robotic CEphaloid; IST-2001-35144) which reproduced, at a functional level, the echolocation system of bats by constructing a bionic bat head that was used to systematically investigate how the world is not just perceived but actively explored by bats. This bionic bat head is of similar size to a real bat head to reproduce the relevant physics and consist of an emission/reception system capable of generating/processing bat vocalisations in real-time, a multi-degree of freedom mechanical system to allow realistic pinnae movement.

2005-2010: CILIA (Customized Intelligent Life-inspired Arrays; IST-2005-016039), about sensory systems based on arrays of hairs. The project aims to identify the common principles underlying the widespread use in nature of arrays of mechanical sensory cells for the extraction of meaning under adverse conditions and to make those principles available for design of engineered systems.