A computer scientist with a passion for horses has embarked on an interdisciplinary animal-computer interaction research project which could help us understand what animals are thinking and feeling.

IMAGINE YOU’RE A DIABETIC and you use a service dog trained to alert you if it senses your blood sugar is falling. These dogs are incredibly useful, because diabetics can lapse into “hypoglycemia ...

A few years ago, when data from testing chemicals on thousands of animals were made public, a team of toxicologists and computer wizards noticed something alarming. They saw that the same substances ...

Safety is imperative before new medicines are given to patients – which is why drugs are tested on millions of animals worldwide each year to detect possible risks and side effects. But research shows ...

New technology that allows zoo animals and their human visitors to share experiences could have positive benefits for both, researchers say. Last summer, computing science experts from the University ...

The BBC has an entire series, called Spy in the Wild, about how different animals, including sloths, dolphins, and monkeys, relate to robotic counterparts. (One arguably cruel plot point involved ...

This talk will explore key ideas in the emerging field of animal-computer interaction, and the ways in which our technologies are increasingly involved in the lives of animals. This creates both ...

Researchers have developed and used a customized suite of technologies that allows a computer to train a dog autonomously, with the computer effectively responding to the dog based on the dog's body ...

Thanks to two separate studies recently published in Scientific Reports, we may be edging towards that future. In a series of experiments, scientists connected live animal brains into a functional ...

New method to study the movement, behaviour, and environmental context of group-living animals using drones and computer vision. A drone is flying over a herd of plains zebras in central Kenya. It is ...