Rats often divide public opinion. People with pet rats hail them as intelligent and even affectionate creatures. The rats that leave the sewers to invade your home, spreading disease and shredding ...

A robotic rat learned how to befriend real rats using AI. The wheeled rat was designed to provide companionship for lab rats, which can live pretty secluded and lonely lives. The robots have movements ...

Rats perceive the world with a complexity that modern artificial neural networks struggle to match. This is the finding of a recent study published in the journal Patterns by the Visual Neuroscience ...

I was bustling through one of the classrooms when I heard a gentle, soothing voice talking to the rats. She was saying sweet ...