R esearchers have developed a robotic rat that is able to imitate rat behavior well enough to to be accepted by the real thing. The AI-powered robo-rats were able to have appropriate social ...

In an astonishing blend of robotics and nature, SMEO—a robot rat designed by researchers in China and Germany — is fooling real rats into treating it like one of their own. What sets SMEO ...

Sometimes, making TV gets a little too real, especially when rodents are involved ... "Not only are we in another tight place, but there's rats?' They were like, 'Don't worry, they're trained!' ...

"There's a lot of expensive New York real estate, and this rat has, at his disposal, a very prime real estate in Brooklyn," Zlatarski said. "And we were thought, 'They are prime citizens ...