Version 2.0 of the study will add bunny scent to the stuffed rabbits if motion and heat aren’t enough to fool the pythons in Florida.

“The rabbits didn’t fare well,” said Robert McCleery, a UF professor of wildlife ecology and conservation who is leading the robot bunny study that launched this summer. Subsequent studies revealed ...

Tonybot educational humanoid robot is programmable with Arduino, Scratch, and Python While child-sized humanoid robots like the Unitree R1 have come down in price, not everybody has a spare $6,000 to ...

Out in the Florida Everglades, scientists have turned to a surprising new weapon in the battle against invasive Burmese pythons: robot rabbits.

A water management district in Florida's Everglades is using robot rabbits to help monitor and remove its ever-growing population of the invasive Burmese python that has wreaked havoc on native ...

Florida’s Burmese python problem isn’t going away anytime soon. The researchers, snake trackers, and other conservationists working to remove the giant snakes will be the first to tell you that ...

Burmese pythons have terrorized the Florida Everglades for years. Scientists are hoping robotic bunnies will end the reptile's reign over the region.

Scientists in Florida are trying out an innovative approach to combat the Burmese python problem in the Everglades.