People adapt their behaviour to their environment so seamlessly that it’s almost unconscious. We adjust our stride when walking in tennis shoes or high heels, or shift our weight when we land on a ...

Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings", Thanos in the "Avengers", Snoke in "Star Wars", the Na'vi in "Avatar": we have all experienced the wonders of motion-capture, a ...

To the untrained eye, DeepLabCut appears to do something pretty basic. It adds dots and lines to video footage of moving animals. But this technology is part of a wave of automation that is ...

Studying the social behavior of animals in their natural environments is necessary for advancing our understanding of ...

In a video, a rodent reaches out and grabs a morsel of food, while small, colored dots highlight the positions of its knuckles. In another clip, a racehorse gallops along a track; again, small, ...

Behavioral scientists introduce DeepLabCut-Live!, a deep-learning tool that can enable real-time feedback studies on animal movement and posture. The software features 'maker-less' real-time motion ...