Back in 2021, the internet briefly lost its collective mind over a very particular headline: rats had been trained to play Doom — specifically, Doom II. Four years later, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://ratsplaydoom.com/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://ratsplaydoom.com/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>the project is back with a substantial update, and this time it’s less of a novelty and more of something that actually resembles gameplay. Kind of. Especially now that an added trigger mechanism allows the rats, which see their way around the game with new wraparound AMOLED screens, to shoot.
The project, led by neuroengineer Viktor…
