Resumen de Guide dogs chosen by smart tug toys
In the US, 60 per cent of dogs that start guide dog training never finishes and the process is arduous, taking two years to complete and costs about $50,000 per dog. To try to predict which dogs will succeed, a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology developed a sensor-filled ball and tug toy, which a training centre has used with a new cohort of 40 dogs. Despite the difficulty in interpreting the machine-learning algorithms used. The team states that using the smart toys to identify the most promising dogs could save a significant amount of money, with testing only taking a few days and the group estimates that the Canine Companions for Independence training centre, where the toy was trialled, could save nearly $5 million if they used it for a year for all its dogs
