Hoomanely’s building a smart feeding bowl and an AI platform to help owners spot when their pup is sick
Startup Hoomanely has developed an AI-powered feeding bowl called the EverBowl that monitors a dog's eating habits and health signals. By establishing a baseline for consumption and behavior, the platform aims to help owners detect illness in pets earlier.
Why it matters
Integrating AI into pet care could significantly improve veterinary outcomes by providing objective data on animal health, which is often difficult to assess.
Dogs are amazing. But as many pet parents will tell you, they can be remarkably good at hiding when something is wrong. My Labrador-Great Dane mix, for example, contracted tick fever several times over his 14 long years, and it was always at least a couple of weeks before I suspected something was off. It nearly gave me anxiety ulcers a few times.
Hoomanely , a new startup out of Palo Alto, thinks it can help people like me spot health problems in their dogs (beyond those two struggling brain cells) much sooner with an AI platform that gathers data using a sensor-laden feeding station. Dubbed the EverBowl, the station measures dogs’ food and water consumption and eating speeds, and records chewing and swallowing sounds, facial thermals, oral motions, and a few other signals.
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