Robotic animals as new tools in rodent neuroscience research: proposed applications of zooinspired robots for mouse behavioral testing

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 19

Published: Feb. 24, 2025

Bioinspired robots are machines which reproduce structural or functional features of a living organism. In particular, the bioinspired animals can be more specifically defined as zooinspired robots. Currently, applications animal various and range across different fields, such as, for instance, nature conservation, search rescue humans after natural man-made disasters, exploration extraterrestrial environments robotic pets elderly people under care dementia. Several species have been imitated up to now, from lizards butterflies, fish dogs. Animal used investigate social behavior an through animal-robot interactions called ethorobots. Intriguingly, ethorobots able in laboratory behaviors that generally produced spontaneously difficult impossible evoke modulate captive animals, makes these particularly useful tools experimental ethology ethological neuroscience. Rodents, primarily mice rats, most common model biomedical research. Coherently with importance scientific research, rats attracting increasing efforts robotics over course past five decades. The technological advancement will make their employment research increasingly useful. However, clear should identified order challenge engineers design serve scopes. present work, we describe possible practical mouse behavioral testing six domains, namely courtship, parental care, antipredatory behavior, helping predation territory defense-related aggression. outline how could employed interact series specific tests behavior. Finally, conclusion consider ethical epistemological advantages use Indeed, benefit on both terms optimized welfare tested subjects extended opportunities designing due unprecedented control independent variables.

Language: Английский

A Non-canonical Excitatory PV RGC–PV SC Visual Pathway for Mediating the Looming-evoked Innate Defensive Response

Neuroscience Bulletin, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 40(3), P. 310 - 324

Published: June 11, 2023

Language: Английский