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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Good news, New York! Your endless war on rats has achieved its first tiny victory, and all it took was discovering what the ...

The AI model was able to eventually match the rats’ image processing capabilities, but only after using more and more ...

A rat peeking around a corner is concerned about the robot at the end of the hall. (Credit: Redish Lab, University of Minnesota) If you’ve ever had a bad experience with a particular place and, in the ...

Researchers find that rats create neurological maps of places to avoid after experiencing a threat and think about these locations when exhibiting worry-related behaviors. These findings may provide ...

The rats would enter at one end, with food available at the opposite end of the track, but partially hidden around the corner would be a robot with claws on the front and a stinger-like tail ...

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 ...

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 ...