Robotic Mice Designed To Stress Out The Real Ones
Before you get up in arms against this atrocious robot, we would like to tell you that it’s all being done in the name of science. The robotic rat named as WR-3 has been built by researchers at the Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan and its job is to induce stress among lab animals for creating models of psychological conditions for drug testing. The WR-3 was put on job to depress groups of 12 rats which were divided in two groups. In the first group the rats were constantly harassed by the robot and in the second group the rats were automatically attacked by the robot whenever they tried to move.
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The team of researchers led by Hiroyuki Ishii also state that this is a better way of stressing out the rats that were previously being stressed out by forced swimming. This new method also recreates a more human-like version of depression.
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The team of researchers led by Hiroyuki Ishii also state that this is a better way of stressing out the rats that were previously being stressed out by forced swimming. This new method also recreates a more human-like version of depression.
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