Article from UK Dementia Research Institute features Smart-Kages: The automated and AI-assisted innovation set to transform animal behaviour experiments. A new company, Cambridge Phenotyping Ltd., aims to tackle several of the common issues plaguing rodent behavioural work, with their novel automated and AI-assisted ‘smart-Kage’ technology.
AI-Powered Tech Enables Continuous Lab Animal Monitoring
As necessity is the mother of invention, Krupic teamed up with other scientists to develop smart-Kage, a fully automated home-cage monitoring system for mice. The system includes behavioral and cognitive tests, such as a T-maze and novel object recognition, to assess hippocampus function.