By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning DailyNews Daily News – According to news reporting based on a preprint abstract, our journalists obtained thefollowing quote sourced from bi orxiv.org:“Animal-robot interaction studies have been of increasing interest in research, but most of these studieshave involved robots interacting with insects, birds, and frogs in laboratory settings. To date, only twostudies used non-human prima tes and no behavioral study has tested the social integration of a robot ina gr oup of wild primates. To fill this gap, we studied the interactions between the quadruped ANYmalrobot and a group of 37 wild vervet monkeys in South Africa. Th e ANYmal robot is a remote-controlledsheep-sized robot with an open box of food on its back. We gradually introduced the robot to the monkeysfollowing five di fferent steps over 6 days for a total exposition time of about 10h. The monkeys habituatedto the robot very quickly with six individuals eating the food in the robot box from the second day.
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