Robotic search: What's in it for comparative cognition?
Although the advantage of biorobotics over traditional modelling tools is not always evident from the studies on animal search addressed in the target article, this commentary argues that testing different robotic architectures and specific biological organisms in structured search spaces, where environmental constraints matter, might prove one of the most promising research strategies in comparative cognition.
De Lillo
Carlo
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Department of Psychology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom cd12@le.ac.uk http://www.le.ac.uk/psychology/cd12/