Glad someone else remembers Flo Control.

“We want to be the first ones to take on that challenge and have all the expertise and skill to be able to hopefully create a really wonderful product that could change other people’s lives,” says Tom Rosinski. “We’re looking at launching on August 16th, it’s a very exciting time for us.”

Well you won't be the first ones, I guess. Everything old is new again.

I thought this seemed familiar. Impressive how much more compact and elegant the new version is with modern technology.

The only thing that really makes it more compact is that flo-control used a big box and a lamp to produce an ideal and consistent input image which took a picture of the cat's head in silhouette.

Honestly, the image acquisition method that the original system used combined with a modern ml based image classifier would probably work better than just hoping your camera can see it from the front.