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Haven’t You Always Wanted A Pet Dinosaur? Meet Pleo

Written by: AgentVeda on: Friday, January 4th, 2008

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I heard about a new robot called Pleo. It’s a baby dinosaur robot and he’s actually pretty cute. He has touch sensors, motors, light detection and hearing. He’s also a learning robot. I looked all over to see what exactly he learns but couldn’t find anything. The articles just say that he learns from his environment and experiences. So what does this Pleo robot do? He walks around, sleeps, plays tug-a-war with you, blinks, wags his tail and makes some really cute dino sounds. The Pleo is upgradeable via SD card or USB. I just want to know if this guy is hackable. Now that sounds like fun. Okay, so you want to know how much? Do you really wanna know. $349. Ouch! Pleo was created by the co-creator of the Furby, Caleb Chung.

So is Pleo the must have toy for 2008? Only I know!

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2 Comments

  • 1. UgobeSarah Date: 8th January 2008 at 2:11 pm :

    Hey AgentVeda!

    Just wanted to let you know that YES, Pleo is hackable. We will be releasing a “PDK” to the public in the first half of 2008 but if you are very industrious you can get going on your own. I would urge you to register for our mailing list so that we can let you know when these things are available.

    An industrious developer has in fact just released the very first application for Pleo - Sitter lets you mod Pleo’s behaviors yourself. FUN! Check it out here:

    http://www.dogsbodynet.com/pleoskit/

  • 2. UgobeSarah Date: 8th January 2008 at 2:11 pm :

    oops! I meant SKITTER for that application. Sitter sounds like fun too, but probably is a whole diffferent idea. ;-)

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