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2011 – Pig Chase
In the Netherlands captive pigs have the legal right to be provided with a toy. However, in practice the toys provided are insufficient for adequate mental stimulation. “Pig Chase” is a tablet-computer...
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2008 – Beetle Wrestler
This project by Chris Woebken allows us to wrestle the strongest animal in the world, the rhinoceros beetle (which is able to support items up to 100 times its own weight). The head-and-body mounted...
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2011 – African Bull Frog plays Ant Smasher game
This popular youtube movie shows an African Bull Frog trying to eat the ants in the game Ant Smasher. The frog actually succeeds very well in capturing the ants. We are curious if the frog actually...
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2012 – Games for Cats
Nestle Purina Petcare, manufacturer of Friskies cat food, released a series of iOS/Android games which make it possible to play computer games versus your cat. ‘Games for cats’ includes games such as...
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2010 – Cat Cat Revolution
‘Cat Cat Revolution’ is an iPad game which allows you to play a computer game with your cat. A custom furry casing with 10 holes is placed over the iPad, and the user can move a mouse across the screen...
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2012 – Cockroach Virtual Reality
Researchers at the University of Oulu (Finland) aimed to record the brain activity of cockroaches while in their natural habitat, but since this wasn’t technically possible they recorded the brain...
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2010 – Godot Machine
The ‘Godot Machine’ is part of the ‘Ant Ballet’ project by Ollie Palmer. An ant is placed on top of a sphere, and the sphere always moves into the opposite direction of the ant, so the ant always...
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2010 – Ant Ballet
‘Ant Ballet’ uses a robotic arm which sprays out pheromone powder trails into an environment filled with ants. Since the ants will follow the trails this makes it possible to move the ants in a...
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2012 – Closed-loop control of zebrafish response using a bioinspired...
Researchers at The Polytechnic Institute of New York University explored the interactions of zebrafish with a robotic-fish that autonomously observed and adapted to the live fish’s motion. An...
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2012 – Beaming into the Rat World: Enabling Real-Time Interaction between Rat...
Researchers from Universities in Spain, Germany, Austria, England and the US developed a virtual reality system designed to allow a human and a rat to interact with each other. Interestingly the human...
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2014 – Fish Plays Pokemon
‘Fish Plays Pokemon’ created by Catherine Moresco and Patrick Facheris, makes a fish navigate a game of Pokémon by swimming around inside of its fish tank. The tank is divided in nine areas which...
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2013 – The Poo Printer
‘The Poo Printer’, a project by artist Fabrizio Lamoncha, attempts to have a group of zebra finches generate typography by having them poo on a piece of paper. from We Make Money Not Art: The Poo...
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2014 – The Biophonic Garden
‘The Biophonic Garden’, by German artist Sebastian Frisch, has the submerged roots of sprouted corn grow towards a constant sine tone of 220 hertz. from Sebastians homepage: Biophonic Garden uses an...
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