A few months ago I collaborated with ChrisDaCow (a youtuber) and created a mod to allow bonobos (a species of ape) to play Minecraft all by themselves. I made Minecraft able to be interacted using the bonobos' familiar control scheme: a touchscreen!
ChrisDaCow worked with the Ape Initiative - a non-profit in Iowa which works with these smart apes - to further the research into the minds of the bonobos. Minecraft was a unique challenge for Kanzi (a bonobo at the research centre) and he completed tasks that they had never done before.
- If you want to read more about my work in this project, check out my website where I go into a little more detail: https://www.isxander.dev/about/#ape-initiative
- If you want to see the source code for this mod, check out the repo I just made public: https://github.com/isXander/KanziControl
- If you want to learn more about the Ape Initiative, check out their website: https://www.apeinitiative.org/
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