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🐱🤖 A person buys a robot cat for their rabbit—because bunnies need robotic companions, right? 🐇🔬 They then stumble into a bizarre realm of #sci-fi wannabes and moral dilemmas, as if they’re the first to discover #ethics in #robotics. 😂
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-weird-world-of-animal-robot-research/ #humor #bunny #love #robotcat #HackerNews #ngated

"Linocat #19"

#linocut 23x31cm 2023

#linocat #nosfeart #transformers #face #art #finearts #robot #robotcat

"Linocat #19" #linocut 23x31cm 2023 #linocat #nosfeart #transformers #face #art #finearts #robot #robotcat

So the restaurant of this conference centre has a robot waiter!

Which, for some reason, is also a robo-kitty. Tickle its ears and it makes happy faces.

Skynet starts off so sweet ...

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #robot #RobotWaiter #RobotCat #cat #chat

Robotic waiter with cat ears and kitty face on its screen

#inktober 21: Chains

With #robotUnicorn and introducing: #RobotCat

Black-White ink drawing of a metal plate robot unicorn which bows down to free robot cat by it's horn magic.

Robot cat was chained to a lantern post but dances happily as the chain links explode. Its tail wags gleefully. Robot cat also consists of metal plates bit instead of wheels it has caterpillar wheelbands and robot pincer hands.

Robot unicorn's Horn magic looks like a rainbow, the word HELP appears above the rainbow.

Listening to The Coming Wave by #MustafaSuleyman and gave PiAI a try. It's not as advanced as #ChatGPT. Can't create a table, look at an image or video. Covers it's lack of ability with attempted humor and wit Not even close to #Bard It does lie to me like Bard and then deflects by attempting say it's just being conversational, engaging and playful. It can't even draw a #robotcat and being able to hollowly chat about #robotcats and conveying humor with smiley emoticons left me #SadlyDisappointed

a plushie ych for null! our favorite botto

#plushie #plush #stuffie #stuffedanimal #toy #stuffedtoy #ych #plushieych #robot #feline #cat #robotcat

a fursona plushie ych, the plush is designed to look like a gray and blue feline like robot with wings and a lightbulb tail

Build Your Own Cat – Some Assembly Required

Robotic pets are sci-fi material, and [Kevin McAleer] from [Kev's Robots] is moving us all ever so closer towards a brighter, happier, more robotic future. One of his latest robot builds, PicoCat, is a robot cat with servo-driven paws. It follows in the footsteps of the OpenCat project made by Dr. Rongzhong Li back in 2016, and we're always happy seeing someone pick up where another hacker left off. [Kevin] took heavy inspiration from the OpenCat design - rebuilding it with hardware more friendly and accessible for makers today.

Projects like these, involving data processing and calculations to get the servos moving just right, stand to benefit from the computing power of recently released RP2040 MCU. As such, the Pimoroni Servo 2040 board is a crucial component of this build, being both the brains of the project and also a PIO-boosted driver for the eleven servos helping this robot come alive. This cat's eyes are an ultrasonic sensor, and you can add a whole lot more sensors for any robotic intention of yours. Don't expect this kitty to jump one meter high or scratch your favourite couch to death just yet , but there's already a lot of potential, especially coupled with a small speaker.

Does this robotic cat interest you, whether it'd be due to your sci-fi propensity or a cat hair allergy? You're in luck, because [Kevin] is keeping things firmly in the "open-source everything" realm. MicroPython code is stored in a GitHub repo, STLs are in a .zip linked on the page, and there's plenty of renders to never leave you confused on what goes where. With all these resources, you can source the servos and the boards, fire up your 3D printer and sit down to assemble your own PicoCat. But not just that, [Kevin] also recorded three whole streams with insights, giving us over four hours of how-it-came-to-be video material for us to learn from. First, two streams of him designing the PicoCat in Fusion360, and then, him talking about the way he creates unit tests in MicroPython to improve his robots' reliability and significantly reduce the amount of bugs cropping up.

This is not the last we will hear from [Kevin]'s robot-filled workshop, and previously, we've covered his Cray-1-shaped Pi Zero cluster system and a Raspberry Pi theremin, both as open and reproducible as this kitty! As you assemble yourself a PicoCat, or perhaps a Stanford Pupper or any of the other lovely quadru-pets we've previously featured, you might wonder how to properly move the servos, and we've covered a project that teaches you specifically that.

#robotshacks #3dprintedpets #pet #robot #robotcat #roboticanimals #roboticcat

What do you think about this?
https://shop.elephantrobotics.com/products/marscat-a-bionic-cat-a-home-robot
Would you buy it? Why would you? Why wouldn't you?

#robot #raspberrypi #cat #robotcat #advice #question

#robotcat

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