With the right combination of the proverbial carrot and stick it turns out that people can train animals to do a shocking number of impressive tasks. Scientists, for example, have trained fish to ...

In 2021 PCG reported on a singular scientific experiment: rats named Carmack and Romero had been taught how to 'play' Doom. I use the inverted commas because, cute and cool as it was, the question of ...

TL;DR: Rats named Carmack and Romero, previously trained to play DOOM, have advanced their skills by learning to shoot the in-game weapon using a new trigger mechanism. This breakthrough highlights ...

You need to see this video about how a neuroengineer taught rats to play video games. In 2020, Viktor Tóth, a former Feinstein Institutes neuroengineer taught a bunch of rats to play a video game. He ...

You've heard the concept of the "rat race," but how about a literal rat, racing through the hallways of Doom? One researcher named Viktor Toth ran an experiment over nearly six months, seeing if he ...

The old question of whether a given piece of hardware, no matter how unsuited it may appear to be, is able to “run Doom” has become obsolete. We’ve seen the 1993 shooter played in some form on ...

This Rat Is "Playing" Doom... For Science - IGN Daily Fix On this episode of The Daily Fix, a neuroscience engineer is training some rats to play Doom using a custom VR setup. But it's not the giant ...