Researchers successfully tested a beaming technology that allowed humans and a rat to interact through virtual reality avatars. Using digital representations of themselves, the researchers enabled the rat to interact with a rat-sized robot controlled by a human participant in a different location. Similarly, the "virtual" human participant interacted with a human-sized avatar controlled by the movements of the distant rat. The researchers say that the ability to digitally transport a representation of a person to a distant place could help scientists study behavior in new ways.

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