In the name of studying “natural” fear, scientists built a LEGO Mindstorms robot, dubbed Robogator, complete with eyes, a moving mouth and a lunging motion function, which they unleashed upon lab rats ...
Pictured is a LEGO Mindstorms robot programmed to simulate predatory attack on a rat seeking food in a semi-naturalistic environment. The findings demonstrate that without the functioning amygdala and ...
A new study uses a much-improved method to study fear in rats, but it raises many questions about how animals calculate risk.