A robot cat built around the preserved exterior of a real cat

Tyrell Asimov@TAsimovF

I think we finally got there, meet Ollie.

This started almost two years ago as an embodied AI + robotics project built around the preserved exterior of my old cat.

Inside is a custom robotic frame with actuators, joint feedback, cameras, microphones, touch sensing, local edge compute and closed-loop motor control.

The behavioral side came from years of old iPhone footage. I extracted pose, gait timing, head turns, ear movement, response delays, routines and behavioral patterns, then used that data to shape motion, memory and behavior.

And thanks to @Grok because he became the main reasoning layer, connected to local vision, speaker recognition, spatial audio, persistent memory and the behavior controller. The motors are still handled by a separate local robotics stack.

The hardest part wasn’t making him intelligent.

It was making him stop moving like a robot.

Early versions were too smooth, too symmetrical and too responsive. Months went into tuning tiny things like ear-first orientation, uneven step timing, weight shifts, delayed reactions and sometimes no reaction at all.

He isn’t Ollie resurrected or uploaded consciousness.
He’s a robotic system built around the preserved form and recorded behavioral data of one specific cat.

I started calling him an Artificial Intelligence Cat.

After the recent government shift toward “Super Intelligence” terminology, I figured the name should change too.

So this is Ollie.

My Super Intelligence Cat.

Ill be posting more videos of him through out the day and week. I don't want to give away my precious work all at once.