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, ...

As a postdoc, physiologist Valentina Di Santo spent a lot of time scrutinizing high-resolution films of fish. Di Santo was investigating the motions involved when fish such as skates swim. She filmed ...

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 ...

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 ...