Rat hunters to enlist facial recognition tool in war against humanity's greatest pest
dailystar.co.ukrats.Cameras placed at infested sites will be able to identify individual vermin.That will allow controllers to accurately count the number of rats targeting a location, follow them and pick them off one-by-one.Pest control giant Rentokil Initial has developed a hi-tech identification system which can distinguish one rat from another.The new technology – which will be unveiled later this week – has been designed at the company's innovation hub in Crawley, West Sussex.It has undergone British trials and is ready to be rolled across the country.
The company declared: "Pest control is going digital.''Boffins came up with the breakthrough after scientists discovered tame and aggressive – or wild – rats had different skull shapes.Their coats are.
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