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.