Cat News: Hairball Herding

Bizarre Headline of the Day must be Teaching Robots to Herd Cats.

According to Wired News, boffins at the University of Minnesota, the University of Pennsylvania and Caltech keep losing their scout robots. This would prove unhelpful if the ‘bots were ever used in search and rescue missions, as intended.

Maybe I’m a luddite, but I couldn’t see the relation between robots that can’t be tracked with a GPS and cat herding. Maybe the temptation of writing such a great (though totally irrelevant, apart from the robot part) headline was too much for reporter Michelle Delio.

Is there no geek out there who can put me out of my ignorant misery by explaining the connection to me?