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AI infiltrates the rat world: New Robot can Interact Socially with Real Lab Rats

A robot rat that interreacts socially with real lab rats
Robot–rat social interaction paradigm: a rat-like robot plays the role of a rat conspecific to interact with another rat via multiple interaction patterns.Nature Machine Intelligence (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-024-00939-y

A team of roboticists at the Beijing Institute of Technology, working with a pair of colleagues from the Technical University of Munich, has created a new kind of rat robot—one that was designed to interact in social ways with real rats.

In their paper published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, the group describes how they used artificial intelligence to train their robot rat to behave like a real rat...

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