It is a known fact that humans have evolved from their ape ancestors. From crawling to walking we have come a long way and it seems that they are following suit, delving into the world of AI. In an ...

Wild monkeys are getting the chance to try AI out for themselves. A recently published study in the American Journal of Primatology introduced CapuchinAI, a system developed by Emory University ...

Picture two animals doing what looks like the same job. One is a chimpanzee in the forests of Côte d’Ivoire, an animal that often weighs more than 40 kilograms, lifting a stone to smash open a nut.

This capuchin monkey cracks open a cashew nut using the "experimental stones". It achieves this by placing the nut on a soft anvil and striking it with a hard hammerstone. A new study provides ...

Scientists created an AI system that uses facial recognition and real-time touchscreen testing to automate cognitive studies of capuchin monkeys in the wild. The American Journal of Primatology ...

Trained capuchin monkeys provide support, companionship, and daily assistance to people with disabilities.

Learn how capuchin monkeys hunt when fruit runs low, which parts of their prey they eat first, and what this may reveal about human evolution. Before dawn in northeastern Brazil, Noemi Spagnoletti and ...

CapuchinAI is a system created to study the cognitive differences of individual wild primates, who all participate by choice Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...