ArticleiScience2020
Behavioral Teleporting of Individual Ethograms onto Inanimate Robots: Experiments on Social Interactions in Live Zebrafish.
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- Swimming with robots: investigating fish locomotion, sensing, and schooling behavior with robotic swimmers.Nature communications · 2026Review
- How do you do the things that you do? Ethological approach to the description of robot behaviour.Biologia futura · 2023Review
- Point for Enrichment, Point for Welfare-Testing Use of a Laser Pointer withAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- After 150 years of watching: is there a need for synthetic ethology?Animal cognition · 2023Review
- Body language signals for rodent social communication.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2021Review
- Acute Citalopram administration alters zebrafish social dynamics in a behavioral teleporting experiment.ALIFE : proceedings of the artificial life conference. International Conference on Artificial Life · 2021Article
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Abstract
Social behavior is widespread in the animal kingdom, and it remarkably influences human personal and professional lives. However, a thorough understanding of the mechanisms underlying social behavior is elusive. Integrating the seemingly different fields of robotics and preclinical research could bring new insight on social behavior. Toward this aim, we established "behavioral teleporting" as an experimental solution to independently manipulate multiple factors underpinning social interactions. Behavioral teleporting consists of real-time transfer of the complete ethogram of a live zebrafish onto a remotely-located robotic replica. Through parallel and simultaneous behavioral teleporting, we studied the interaction between two live fish swimming in remotely-located tanks: each live fish interacted with an inanimate robot that mirrored the behavior of the other fish, and the morphology of each robot was independently tailored. Our results indicate that behavioral teleporting can preserve natural interaction between two live animals, while allowing fine control over morphological features that modulate social behavior.
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