Talk:Guided rat

infobox
Placing animal-rights movement infobox onto descriptions of research not related to the animal-rights movement introduces non-neutral POV, unless this research was relevant to the animal-rights movement in some way, ie Pit of Despair or BritchesCzyl 13:50, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Page move
I moved the page to guided rat from roborat because the researchers deny that their rats are merely controlled automata. See the external link I added to the article. Dave (talk) 21:34, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Having worked in John Chapin's lab -- the rats are correctly referred to as "robo-rats" within the lab, not just in a popular setting. The name doesn't make any claim about whether or not the rats are actually automatons. The appellation comes by analogy with robo-cop, I imagine - a hybrid biological/electronic creature. Czyl 06:31, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

explosives
I removed this sentence:
 * Currently, these rats are primarily being trained to detect explosives in areas where humans and existing robots cannot efficiently search, such as crowds and cargo ships.

I think it rests on confusion between this study and the African pouched rat, which is being trained. The roborats have not yet been trained for this, according to the BBC. 21:34, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

At the time I was in the Chapin lab [2004], they were being trained for explosives detection in this context. The BBC article dates to 2002. Czyl 06:31, 25 September 2005 (UTC)