Are they robots or rats? They may be a bit of each. Scientists at the State University of New York’s Downstate Medical Center and Drexel University report in today’s issue of the journal Nature that ...

In front-page headlines this month, scientists proclaimed the arrival of robo-rats: rodents with electrodes in their brains whose every move could be programmed by remote control. The researchers ...

The official rules for a Lego Robo-Rat Competition are simple; it’s the players who are complex. UCSB engineering students in an electromechanical systems class tested their hand-built autonomous ...