Researchers build robot rat to induce stress in lab animals (w/ Video)

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 10:30 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org)—Researchers at Waseda University in Japan have built a robot rat they call WR-4, and whose purpose isto induce stress in lab rats. In studying the impact of stress inflicted on the lab rats, the researchers hopeto learn more about how stress affects people.

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