I Just Spent a Week With a Robot Cat and My Life Will Never Be the Same
ZD Net | Sept 11, 2022 | Chris MatyszczykThe timing was perfect.
My wife and I had been debating about whether to adopt a cat.
There wasn’t complete agreement. Or any, really.
Suddenly, I received an email whose subject line was so promising: “A lifelike robot cat powered by AI, because why not?”
Straight Line of the Day: How would spending a week with a robot cat change your life?
Well, I spent a week with a blond Robochick in a college physics class experiment once and it worked out well. I have pics but I can’t share due to national security issues.
Can’t see any difference at all other than that the robocat is a bit better at ignoring me…
The litter box has this oily smell…
Is she hot?
It would cut down on my robot mice infestation problem.
It keeps bringing me computer mice…
Can she make a tuna sammich?
Is there a “silent mode”?
…probably has a built in can opener.
How many of the boxes got returned to the Schrödinger Company because they’re empty?
hairballs are aligned with the compass points.
I know! Call it AutomaTom!
TOM?!
[hisssss grrrrr]
I don’t know how they assemble it. It may have stray cat struts.
As an SME in the field of robotics I have spent more than a few weeks in the company of robots. I can confirm that they are all quite cat-like in behavior. You can spend hours teaching them to accomplish a certain task and you will find they will do exactly what you told them to do in instances where that conflicts with what you actually meant them to do, and they will fail to do exactly what you told them to do just often enough to make you believe it was your fault.
If there is an object on the table, the robot will make sure to throw it on the floor.
If there isn’t litter nearby it will leave puddles of HVLP on the floor.
Don’t let a robot near your sofa. It’ll shred it for sure.
Thanksfor the info, Fangbeer!
I’m beginning to warm up to this robot idea.
How would spending a week with a robot cat change your life?
I’m eating more tuna.
Because I need a “machine” that will ignore me, eat food I have to buy, do nothing all day long and make noise at night because it can. If you want a pet get one, if you want a machine get one that makes ice.
I think all the AA batteries it delivers in the litter box will come in handy..
AI and Cats…
This won’t end well.
https://youtu.be/lCmS27Dj4xc?t=70
…I don’t know, but I suspect the author’s last name is the sound it makes coughing up a hairball.
Does it cough up hairballs, or brillo pads?