Blast Theory’s 2023 installation Cat Royale trained a robot to play with a family of cats over the course of 12 days while provoking the public to reflect on the nature of trust in AI. It was shown at the Brisbane World Science fair and London Science Gallery, featured in the Times, Guardian and Newsweek, and has delivered full papers at CHI 2024 on designing robot ecologies and the ethics of multispecies research.
Cat Royale video playlist
Cat Royale papers
Benford, S., et al, Charting Ethical tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space. Accepted to appear in Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference of Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2024). ACM https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ip7nlxgy83k7495zm1d4k/CHI24-Ethical-tensions.pdf?rlkey=bmx1sy3gqsf2kv4xr7imdh2xi&dl=0
Schneiders, E., et al, Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats and Humans, Accepted to appear in Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference of Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2024), ACM. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qild1y41ujs58xh3h7bac/CHI24-Multispecies-worlds.pdf?rlkey=u3nzi6gyot9vd9zgupntav17x&dl=0c
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