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Behavioral AI on pet cameras — what works, what's marketing

“The behavioral AI that works in 2023 lives in veterinary clinics with $40,000 high-frame-rate cameras and trained-classifier pipelines for lameness detection. The behavioral AI on a $250 consumer camera doing 'is your dog happy' is marketing. The category distinction matters.”

Furbo Dog Camera — first impressions, and the treat-toss is the real engineering

“The treat-toss is the engineering achievement, and it's mechanical, not software. A spring paddle, a calibrated launch arc, a click the dog learns in an hour. Atom now stares at the thing like it's a slot machine that pays out in biscuits.”