A rat-like robot for interacting with real rats

Qing Shi; Hiroyuki Ishii; Shinichi Kinoshita; Shinichiro Konno; Atsuo Takanishi; Satoshi Okabayashi; Naritoshi Iida; Hiroshi Kimura

doi:10.1017/S0263574713000568

A rat-like robot for interacting with real rats

Qing Shi^*, Hiroyuki Ishii, Shinichi Kinoshita, Shinichiro Konno, Atsuo Takanishi, Satoshi Okabayashi, Naritoshi Iida, Hiroshi Kimura

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School of Creative Science and Engineering

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Abstract

We develsoped a novel small rat-like robot called Waseda Rat No. 4 (WR-4) to interact with real rats. WR-4 can perform both rearing (rising up on its hind limbs) and rotating (body bending during movement) actions faster than live mature rats. After robot-rat interaction involving rearing and body grooming (body cuddling and head curling) actions of WR-4, real rats showed more activity and greater interest in the robot. Similar results evident from rat-rat interaction suggest that a rat-like robot is able to interact with rats in the same way as real rats. Furthermore, lower variances between the rat subjects in robot-rat interaction reveals that a rat-like robot can more effectively impact rat's behavior in a controllable, predictable way.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1337-1350
Number of pages	14
Journal	Robotica
Volume	31
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574713000568
Publication status	Published - 2013 Dec

Keywords

Biomimetic robots
Design
Mobile robots
Rat-like
Robot-rat interaction
WR-4

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Software
Control and Systems Engineering
Mathematics(all)
Computer Science Applications

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