Cambridge Phenotyping presents a new fully automated AI-driven home-cage system for cognitive and behavioural phenotyping in mice. The system incorporates spontaneous alternation T-maze, novel-object recognition and object-in-place recognition tests combined with monitoring of an animal position, water consumption, quiescence and locomotion patterns, all carried out continuously and simultaneously in an unsupervised fashion over long periods of time. Mice learnt the tasks rapidly without any need for water or food restrictions.
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.
