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Rat robot beats on live rats to make them depressed

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One of the two rats in the above picture isn’t really a rat. One of the two rats in the above picture is, in fact, a robot. Look closely and you can just barely figure it out. Meanwhile, the rat that isn’t a robot is seriously depressed, because that’s what this robot specializes in: rat depression.
via IEEE Spectrum

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