If applied soon in the future, this type of remote control dog shirt will be of great help to their owners in ordering their dog to perform movements or participate in rescue easily. than.
In the past, dogs have often cooperated with humans on dangerous missions ranging from search and rescue missions to catching criminals. They are quite docile and can easily be trained to follow all kinds of auditory commands such as whistles, specific phrases and even hand signals.
Scientist is testing remote control vest for dogs.
However, a dog can only respond when it can hear or see those signals. But in reality, their operating environment is so difficult and harsh that it is sometimes impossible to use the usual ways to give them orders.
To make it easier for dog trainers to command the dog without having to make verbal commands or gestures, researchers at the Robotics Laboratory at Ben-Gurion University, Israel have found discovered a way to exploit reflexes to control dogs from afar , and give commands and signals thanks to a special back shirt .
The shirt can create vibrations on the sides of the dog’s back to create varying degrees of haptic feedback.
According to Gizmodo , the reflexes that stimulate dogs through the shirt are similar to the way humans feel a phone vibrate in a trouser pocket.
The special shirt that is attached to the back of the dogs is an ultralight shirt. It integrates vibration motors inside. The shirt can create vibrations on the sides of the dog’s back to create varying degrees of haptic feedback.
The dog used in this test is a German shepherd. Surprisingly, it was able to quickly learn to distinguish between different vibration responses corresponding to commands such as lie down, throw or go backwards. Because the vest can be controlled remotely, the trainer can easily give commands to the dog without approaching or even being out of sight.
Because the vest can be controlled remotely, the trainer can easily give commands to the dog without approaching.
According to the researchers, dogs seem to respond better to vibrational cues than to voice commands and gestures, which require a lot of time to train.
The team hopes that this remote control shirt will help a lot in search and rescue operations, where dogs can approach and save victims better than humans. In addition, the shirt is also equipped with a camera, so it is very good for searching.
Even more widely applied, it could help change the lives of animals who are blind, deaf or insensitive. It also promises to be a more humane way of training dogs than using collars or other means.
The process of testing the remote control shirt and giving commands to the dog