The research done by a team at the University of Minnesota studied how rats respond to threats and rewards using a robot ...

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 ...

Anxiety can act as a great motivator to avoid potentially uncomfortable interactions, and it seems that even rats may fall ...

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 ...

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 wheeled rat was designed to provide companionship for lab rats, which can live pretty secluded and lonely lives. The robots have movements and appearances similar to real animals and even emit ...

Building a robot takes boatloads of technical skills, a whole lot of time, the right materials, of course – and maybe a ...

A Chinese-German research team has presented a robot modeled on a rat that learns the behavioral patterns of living "conspecifics" in the journal "Nature Machine Intelligence". The "SMuRo" system ...

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 ...