Researchers have introduced a novel approach to studying social behavior in rats using a robotic pal. A team from the Beijing Institute of Technology has created an AI-trained robotic rat capable ...
In an astonishing blend of robotics and nature, SMEO—a robot rat designed by researchers in China and Germany — is fooling real rats into treating it like one of their own. What sets SMEO ...
The research done by a team at the University of Minnesota studied how rats respond to threats and rewards using a robot predator. They found that rats’ brains map out locations of danger ...
In an astonishing blend of robotics and nature, SMEO—a robot rat designed by researchers in China and Germany — is fooling real rats into treating it like one of their own. What sets SMEO ...
What Robot-Driving Fish and Rats Tell Us About the Brain’s Ability to Adapt In lab experiments, neuroscientists have trained goldfish and rats to drive robots. But these tests weren’t just ...
The nature-inspired gadgets covered in the lavishly illustrated How to Catch a Robot Rat include bipeds, quadrupeds, hexapods, fish, snakes, birds and insect drones, Honda’s humanoid robot, ASIMO, and ...
Rats were first trained to obtain a water reward by depressing a spring-loaded lever to proportionally move a robot arm to a water dropper (Fig. 1.). On release, water was transferred to the mouth ...
Nagarkurnool: Robots on Tuesday joined the operation to locate the seven persons who remain trapped inside the partially ...
How to Catch a Robot Rat: When Biology Inspires Innovation By Agnès Guillot & Jean-Arcady Meyer; translated by Susan Emanuel The MIT Press 232 pp. $29.95 Where do physicists turn for inspiration? To ...