Here, we report an artificial multisensory neuron consisting of a piezoresistive sensor and a VO2 based volatile memristor connected in series. Such artificial sensory neurons can be used to sense different pressure inputs and convert them into spike trains as a result of the voltage dividing effect between the piezoresistive sensor and VO2 memristor. Besides, Tthe spiking neuron is also capable of sensing temperature, by taking advantage of the intrinsic thermal sensitivity of metal-insulator transition in VO2. The spiking neuron is utilized to recognize Braille characters using multiple piezoresistive sensors. Notably, the traditionally separate haptic and temperature signals can now be fused physically in the VO2 based sensory neuron when synchronizing the two sensory cues, which is able to recognize multimodal haptic/temperature patterns. Such multisensory neurons could provide a promising approach towards e-skin, neuro-robotics and human-machine interaction technologies.