Here's a sad thought for you: The rat robot (ratbot?) in the photo above was created solely to bully real rats until they're depressed. This might sound like the work of a sadistic behavioral ...

A study revealed that rats form mental maps of locations associated with threats and revisit these places in their minds when showing signs of anxiety. The research done by a team at the University of ...

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 apart is its ...

The agility with which humans and animals move is an evolutionary marvel that no robot has yet been able to closely emulate. To help probe the mystery of how brains control movement, Harvard ...

This past week saw an intriguing confluence of multiple disciplines, in the form a new artificial stingray model its creators call a "living robot," and an unconventional means of studying the human ...

Poor little fella, getting contextual ads in his dreams. Normally the thing that scares me most in science is robots, with their beady little eyes that hide sinisters “thoughts.” But now scientists ...