Brad Baxter, owner of Automated Pet Care Products, Inc., (home of the Litter-Robot) will be a guest on the popular daily morning show ‘The Balancing Act’ on Lifetime Network (7:00AM to 8:00AM EST) on March 9, 30 and April 13.  Also on the show will be Ann Kulka, an enthusiatic Mom and business owner who loves her Litter Robot!  Check out the ‘tune-in’ below.

Check out latest review from the House Keeping Channel.

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I love my Litter Robot II. I can go a week, with my three cats, between litter changes, and these changes only require a bag replacement and addition of fresh litter.

However, I have two suggestions for the Litter Robot III.

1 – Enable waste pass-through.

Since my unit is now out of warranty, I did this myself (to allow a little buffer between changes, should I forget). I cut out a section from the base, extending from the back between the hanger where the tray rests, around the front of these brackets and to the sides inside of the inner reinforcing rod on each side, and along them to the front support. I then cut the tray to match (the tray cannot be removed entirely, since it is needed for weight-sensing purposes), and created a sleeve from the bottom of the globe through the bottom of the base. The sleeve eliminates the possibility of a mess in the tray, which would be reduced even without this by using a tray liner with a hole. I can then use the tray normally, without any pass-though, should I choose.

I then created a cabinet, similar to those offered through this site but not as fancy, that supports the Litter Robot on a second tier and with a much larger waste bin than stock below. I’ve heard of those mounting their Litter Robot atop 55-gallon drums, though I expect they become difficult to empty .

2 – I have not done this, as it would require some work with weight sensors, though perhaps it could simply make use of the existing sensor. The unit could be designed, or fitted as an add-on, with a container behind and slightly higher than the bottom of the globe, which can keep the litter tray within a certain tolerance of fullness. The current sensor detects an over-weight condition, but, whether as-is or with modification or supplementation, could also detect an under-weight condition. When the sensor detects the unit to be under-weight, it could release sufficient fresh litter to return the unit to normal weight. Perhaps this could make use of the new bubble as a pass-though into the unit; if not, another pass-through would be needed.

Between these two modifications, neither of which should be difficult, the Litter Robot III could be self-sufficient for an extended period. Together with a large user-provided base container and automatic food and water dispensers, which are already available (but which Automated Pet Care Products could certainly improve and market in color-coordinated fashion), an owner could leave for a two-week or even month-long vacation without worries that the regular pet-sitter fails to provide proper care; such a sitter would not need to tend any issues, but only notify you in the rare event a problem occurs.

A tech-savvy but stingy owner could simply set up a webcam rather than pay a sitter/daily visitor. Though I would not recommend such with a single cat; he or she will get lonely quickly; I could do this since I have three cats that will entertain themselves.

Michael

Bristol, VA

Some recent press on our Litter Robot litter box….

Chicagoland Tails Litter Robot Product Review by Renee Krejci

The Litter-Robot

Reprinted from Pawprintsthemagazine.com

By Stacy E. Smith

Who has an electric, automated, self-cleaning litter box (LitterMaid, etc.)? Raise your hand. Who wishes they had one, but would rather not spend a couple of hundred bucks on a litter box? Who has one and wishes they hadn’t spent a couple of hundred bucks on it? We can relate. We have one that sits unplugged and is now scooped just like a traditional, non-electric, non-self-cleaning, non-automated litter box. The rake that moved back and forth across the litter in order to sift out the clumps and leave clean litter behind seemed to always be clogged with the sticky combination of urine/feces and kitty litter causing the entire machine to jam.

I came upon Litter-Robot a while ago, by accident, on the Internet (as I do many products) and based on the differences, thought we should give it a try. What is the difference? Litter-Robot is round – sort of shaped like a globe. We call it “Kenny” because, to us, it looks like the so-named, hooded, parka-clad character on the animated series, “South Park” on Comedy Central. The cat enters the globe, does its business and leaves just like a traditional covered litter box. Litter-Robot has an electronic sensor that tells it cycle seven minutes after a cat leaves. It slowly rotates and the clean litter is sifted through a grid into a holding area below. The beauty of this system is that there is absolutely nothing on which the cat’s “clumps” may become stuck. The unit then rotates back and forth a few times dumping the clumps into the receptacle tray below, and finally the last rotation allows the clean litter back into the globe with the unit returned to its original “home” position. There are a series of three lights that let you know what the Litter-Robot is doing; the green “ready light” signals that it is ready for use again (not that your cat needs to learn those). There is a safety mechanism in place that prevents the Litter-Robot from operating when a cat is inside. The globe rotates so slowly; so slowly that I’m not sure there would be much of  a problem if the cat decided to re-enter the globe, but there is an additional safety feature in place that shuts off the motor automatically if that were to happen. It is impossible to imagine any cat that would climb into anything that is moving and making noise.

The receptacle needs to be lined, but one of the features of Litter-Robot is that there are no special liners to buy; ordinary kitchen garbage bags will do the trick.

Wow! What great videos of the automatic litter box we all love – the Litter Robot. In total we had approximately 40 entries.  We were so impressed that we added a new prize for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place – a brand new Bubble Globe, and we’re still giving away 10 Ramps. Actually, all the videos were great and you can tell that they were done with a lot of enthusiasm. Thanks for participating in this contest – fun stuff!

Below are the winners:

Grand Prize (Bubble Unit Litter Robot): The Amazing Litter Robot – The Finer Things in Life
2nd Prize (Bubble Globe): Cat Poop – Blinded by the Light
3rd Prize (Bubble Globe): Kitty Kribs
4th Prize (Bubble Globe): Oli in the Space Ship

Ramp winners in no particular order:

This is Squeebles
Speedie Taking a Break
Love is Strange
Pepper and the Litter Robot
Oh Yeah Felix Loves his Litter Robot
Sacha and her Around the World Litter Robot
Callie the Litter Robot Star
Jasper Fetching and using the Litter Robot
Luna and Her Litter Robot
Little Shirley

Sensors and Chips Trained to Serve Pets
By Sonia Zjawinski
Published: May 20, 2009

Litter-Robot

One thing I constantly hear while rescuing cats is, “I love them, but I hate litter boxes.” Who doesn’t? Try smart engineering instead. Plenty of litter boxes have claimed automated self-cleaning, but the Litter-Robot is the only one I’ve seen that delivers. A weight sensor marks when your feline enters and leaves the device, which looks a little like the Death Star. The Litter-Robot then counts down from seven minutes and, as long as the sensor hasn’t been activated again, the globe begins to spin counterclockwise.

Gravity pushes the litter — any clumping or scoopable type — over a sifter, which separates the clean from the soiled. Waste is dispensed into a plastic bag in the bottom of the machine. Once the bag is full (about a week of single cat use) you open the drawer, pull out the bag, tie it up and throw it out.

There are two drawbacks to the Litter-Robot: its price, $329 (litter-robot.com), and its size — 29-by-22-by-24 inches — but that is a small price and a minor loss of floor space for never having to clean a litter box again.

There’s still time to submit your video! Contest runs until July 1st (extended from June 1st). Winners announced July 8th. 1st Prize winner gets brand new ‘Bubble’ Unit Litter Robot. (10) 2nd Prize winners get a Litter Robot Ramp. See right hand column below for entry form. If you have submitted a video and don’t see it here, please try to resubmit. We have had several entries without a YouTube link (make sure you enter the link). Thanks!

Nando P.

Howard Hill with Scooter and Litter Robot

Petey and the Litter Robot

Pepper & the Litter Robot

Oh Yeah! Felix Loves his Litter Robot

Cat Poop

Luna and her Gadget