Beaming into the rat world

Using cutting-edge virtual reality technology, researchers have 'beamed' a person into a rat facility allowing the rat and human to interact with each other on the same scale.
The human participant controls a rat-sized robot in a different location, while at the same a human-sized avatar represented the motions of the rat to the human participant through a virtual environment. The authors hope the new technology will be used to study animal behaviour in a completely new way.
You can read the full paper, open access published in PLoS one, here: dx.plos.org/10....

[@melslater2]

I want to say that the above comment is incorrect. Please see the movies uploaded on the original paper, which trace the paths of the rat and human and show that there is meaningful interaction. The paper can be found on the PLoS ONE (plosive) web site.

[@Vaihox]

Hah, at 4:01, you can see next to the rat where he pissed on the board.

[@tehzoh]

Its just a scared rat with random movements.. There is not really any meaningful interaction what so ever

[@gbessone]

I agree this is pretty stupid.

[@entidade1000]

she is hot. thats all