Interview

December 17, 2020

Petcube is building a smartphone for your pet

The Ukrainian pet video streaming company says AI can help pets “talk” to owners


Maija Palmer

6 min read

What if your pet had its own smartphone and could call you? Maybe not literally an iPhone 12 but some video interface it could use to alert you? And what if you could more easily understand what your dog or cat wanted to tell you when it called?

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