The project won the Webby People’s Voice Winner for the ‘Best Integrated Experience in the AI, Metaverse & Virtual’ category.  The Webby Awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), is an international awards organisation honouring excellence on the Internet.  It also won awards at the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference and iBest Paper Award (top 1% of submitted papers) for the paper: Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans. 

Find out more about Cat Royale via Robot Talk Podcast (84)

Media coverage:

The Conversation – Thought-provoking new exhibition suggests the public should help shape the future of AI

The Guardian – Meet the artists reclaiming AI from big tech – with the help of cats, bees and drag queens

News Week – AI robot tries to make cats happy in unique feline ‘utopia’ trial

Pressat – Robot entertains cats in newly launched art-tech installation

Feline Opines

Sci News – Would you trust robots to look after your cat?

Zooniverse – Can you teach an AI what a happy cat looks like?