Live rats played and tussled with the robot rodent Shutterstock / Bilanol
A robotic rat on wheels has learned how to interact with real rats while mimicking the rodents鈥 play and fight behaviours.
鈥淸The] robotic rats have similar appearances and movements to animals, and even the same odour,鈥 says at the Beijing Institute of Technology in China. “It has become an important tool for exploring individual or collective rats’ behavioural responses.鈥
The robotic rat, which Shi and his colleagues developed, has two front arms, a…
