Mousr is a robotic toy that plays with your cat

We already have video evidence of cats catching rides on Roombas, so we know cats like robots. It was only a matter of time before the feline crowd got a robot of its very own. The Mousr from Petronics on Kickstarter is a sensor-laden bot built for high-tech cat entertainment. Mousr is quite a bit different from the battery-operated toys you might find at pet shop. Even the fanciest of those tend to have a very limited repertoire of movements. Mousr is aiming to be light-years beyond that. The little mouse-shaped bot detects your cat’s approach from any direction and reacts to being hunted by trying to escape. It has a hidden speaker to add an audio element to the chase. The Petronics team behind Mousr is working on developing a full-on AI system for the gadget so it can learn and adapt to you cat’s style of play.