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Apple, Google, and Facebook Are Raiding Animal Research Labs
With whole new industries at stake, the race to unlock the secrets of the animal mind is getting weird.
19 Jun 2019, 08:23 AM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Jaguar is a mouse. He lives at Harvard’s Rowland Institute, where, from time to time, he plays video games on a rig that looks like it belongs in A Clockwork Orange. Metal bars position him inside a small platform in front of a metal lever; his mission is to find a virtual box’s edges by feel. To do this, he reaches with his right paw to grab the joystick, which can rotate 360 degrees, and maneuvers it unt...
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