Today a general-purpose chip like the RSC-364 from Sensory costs as little as $1.
Vision is a versatile low-cost sensory modality, but low sample rate, high sensor delay and uncertain measurements limit its usability, especially in strongly dynamic environments.
The boards, Sensory officials say, will cost an extra $4 a dog, a price that makes Mr. Lee nervous.
This concept is here tried out by recycling screen-printed electrodes that were to be disposed of and by choosing as sensory element a low cost material offering specific response for an environmental contaminant.
They are motivated by cost, convenience and sensory gratification, or maybe they just don't care.
Such method reduces the energy cost of acquiring sensory data since the forecasting model is sufficiently utilized.
It should be noted that in value-learning and free-energy schemes there are no distinct rewards or punishments; every sensory signal has an expected cost, which, in the present context, is just surprise.
Such an evolutionary trend could be driven by the costs associated with sensory processing and the resulting energy-information trade-off (Isler and van Schaik 2006; Niven et al. 2007; Niven and Laughlin 2008).
In contrast, in the presence of a general cost of maintaining a sensory mechanism for an antagonistic interaction, every individual would pay the same cost, and relative fitness would not be affected.
When well designed, it can ensure safe, stable, and high-quality products, with good sensory and nutritional attributes, and low costs and energy consumption.
