Integration of social cues to initiate adaptive emotional and behavioral responses is a
fundamental aspect of animal and human behavior. In humans, social communication …

Animal robots have remarkable advantages over traditional mechatronic ones in terms of
energy supply, self-orientation, and natural concealment and can provide remarkable …

For several decades, although studies of rat physiology and behavior have abounded,
research on rat emotions has been limited in scope to fear, anxiety, and pain. Converging …

Highlights•Several experimental paradigms are now available to study helping in
rats.•Freeing a trapped rat does not depend on social interaction with the freed rat.•Freeing a …

Self-propelled motion cues elicit the perception of inanimate objects as animate. Studies
usually rely on the looking behaviour of subjects towards stimuli displayed on a screen, but …

Artificial models have been used as interactive partners for decades to study the social
behavior of animals. Recent technological developments have opened up novel possibilities …

In their book “How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence,” Pfeifer
and Bongard put forth an embodied approach to cognition. Because of this position, many of …

More than 24,000 rodent studies are published annually, with the vast majority of these
studies focused on genetically undiverse animals in highly-controlled laboratory settings …

The Darwinian idea of mental continuity is about 150 years old. Although nobody has
strongly denied this evolutionary link, both conceptually and practically, relative slow …

In this letter, we propose a motion generation strategy using imitation learning (IL) for
biomimetic robots to interact with animals in a more natural manner. We previously …