Cat Royale

For more information on Cat Royale, see the official Blast Theory webpage.

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NEWS

The Cat Royale project received two nominations for the prestigious AI & Robotics Award 2025 in the categories of ā€œBest Demonstrator of AI & Roboticsā€ and ā€œBest Research Paper - Early Career Researcher" (https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642115). The awards ceremony took place on March 12, 2025, at the Royal Society in London, recognising outstanding contributions to AI and robotics innovation.

Thanks to the whole team šŸˆā¤ļøšŸ¤–.




Publications

How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics. ICSR 2024

CHI'24 - Best Paper Award: Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans. CHIā€™24

CHI'24 - Honourable Mention: Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space. CHIā€™24

The Purr-suit of Happiness: A Tale of Three Kittens: Robots, Humans, Cats, and AI. HRIā€™24

Cat Royale. ACM Interactions 2024

TAS for Cats: An Artist-led Exploration of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for Companion Animals. TASā€™23

Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal ā€“ Centric Robotic & AI Systems. ACIā€™2022


Video

Watch the highlight video of day 1 out of the 12 day installation. If you like, why not watch all 12 videos?