Friday, August 07, 2015

Robot Training a Cat to Hunt and Retrieve



Ben Millam has built a cat feeder that releases food upon recognition of RFID-tagged plastic balls.

Millam places the balls around the house and his cat, Monkey, has to find them and return them to a bowl fitted on top of the food feeder.  When the balls rolls down the chute, instant kitty chow dispenser!

More on training the cat and how to build an Arduino-based triggering mechanism for the dispenser here.

This would be beyond awesome for a dog, though I think the food would have to come down a PVC pipe chute to prevent the dog from taking "direct action" to the Super Feeder.


1 comment:

  1. Jeff T.2:10 PM

    Great video- you can really see how these little killers became the scourge of small animals everywhere-

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