Olfactory sensor

Olfactory sensors,Star Wars: Droid Factory also called smell receptors,Adventures in Wild Space: The Escape were a type of sensors that provided droids with an artificial sense of smell. Cybot Galactica's 3PO-series protocol droids were equipped with such sensors, and so were the KX-series security droids built by Arakyd Industries.Star Wars: Rogue One: Rebel Dossier
==Behind the scenes==
Olfactory sensors for droids were first mentioned in the reference book Star Wars: Droid Factory. However, according to Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side!, droids do not have the ability to smell, but can analyze the chemical composition of the air around them thanks to their chem-receptors.Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side!
==Appearances==
*Adventures in Wild Space: The Escape 
*War of the Bounty Hunters 4 
*Bounty Hunters 38 
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*Last Shot 
==Sources==
*Star Wars: Droid Factory 
*Star Wars: Rogue One: Rebel Dossier
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*Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition
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==Notes and references==
Category:Droid sensors
Category:Sensor types