Cat Royale
For more information on Cat Royale, see the official Blast Theory webpage.
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Awards
The Columbia University School of the Artsā Digital Storytelling Lab has selected Cat Royale as one of the recipients of the 2025 "Digital Dozen: Breakthroughs in Storytelling Award". Read the full story here.
The Cat Royale project received two nominations for the prestigious AI & Robotics Award 2025 in the categories of āBest Demonstrator of AI & Roboticsā and āBest Research Paper - Early Career Researcher". The awards ceremony took place on March 12, 2025, at the Royal Society in London, recognising outstanding contributions to AI and robotics innovation.
Cat Royale has won the prestigious Webby Award: Honoring the Best of the Internet. The project won the People's Voice Award in the category "AI, Immersive & Games Best Integrated Experience". More here.
Publications
Tangles: Unpacking Extended Collision Experiences with Soma Trajectories. ACM ToCHI
How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics. ICSR 2024
CHI'24 - Best Paper Award: Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans. CHIā24
CHI'24 - Honourable Mention: Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space. CHIā24
The Purr-suit of Happiness: A Tale of Three Kittens: Robots, Humans, Cats, and AI. HRIā24
Cat Royale. ACM Interactions 2024
TAS for Cats: An Artist-led Exploration of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for Companion Animals. TASā23
Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal ā Centric Robotic & AI Systems. ACIā2022
Video
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