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 ...

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 ...

If most robots still need remote human operators to be safe and effective, why should we welcome them into our homes?

Researchers taught a robotic rat with a real odor how to play with live rats using AI, and it could change how we treat lab ...

In an astonishing blend of robotics and nature, SMEO—a robot rat designed by researchers in China and Germany — is fooling ...

Moreover, it has a bionic spine, which gives the robot flexibility to move in a variety of ways, similar to a real rat. It can bend and twist, allowing for natural-looking movements. The ...

Roboticists at the Beijing Institute of Technology and the Technical University of Munich have developed a so-called rat robot to interact socially with real rats. The team used artificial ...

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 the real world, robots are not near having this level of ability. But scientists are working on it. In this new effort, the team in China set out to make a robot that could fool lab rats into ...

Roboticists from the Beijing Institute of Technology and scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a rat robot that has been trained with artificial intelligence (AI ...