Kurt "The CyberGuy" Knutsson explains how you can keep unwanted rodents from entering through the cat flap. Despite rising concerns over artificial intelligence, pet owners may have actually found a new best friend in AI for their best friend. Cats are known to be proud predators who often show their affection and prowess through hunting, killing and bringing their prey back home. While a lovely gesture, this primal feline habit often leaves bewildered pet owners with bloody messes or partial or fully live birds, rodents and bugs in their homes. CLICK TO GET KURT'S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH SECURITY ALERTS, QUICK VIDEO TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER Many pet owners love their furry companions, but they also want to keep their homes clean and safe from unwanted visitors.

While our cats may just think we are terrible, hairless hunters, their'gifts' of a chewed up mouse are not always welcome. To help prevent this messy occurrence, an entrepreneur has created a smart cat flap that will lock your kitty out the house temporarily while they are holding their prey. Martin Rosinski, 37, was sick of being woken by his adorable serial killer Jinx, who would drag in rodents at night and meow loudly to alert her sleeping owners. In June 2021, the app technical director modified his microchip cat flap by installing a camera and artificial intelligence (AI) technology that detects the presence of prey. If prey is recognised, the cat flap is temporarily locked and a notification is sent to the owner's phone along with a video of the attempted entry.

We've all been able to check on our kitties' outdoor activities for a while now, thanks to motion-activated cameras. "Did you already make dinner? I stopped on the way home to pick this up for you." But what's eluded us "owners" of felines up until now is the ability to stop our furry companions from bringing home mauled presents we neither want nor asked for. Now this Raspberry Pi–powered machine learning build, shared by reddit user u/eee_bume, can help us out: at its heart, there's a convolutional neural network cascade that detects whether a cat is trying to enter a cat flap with something in its maw.