Pleo: Dino Robot = Dinobot
Pleo, the friendly dino robot, debuted at DEMO 2006.
Even though Pleo may look cute and cudley, he’s really quite high tech. His polymer- based skin has a network of pressure sensors, there is an infared ray in the head to “see” and avoid objects, force-feedback sensors in his toes to alert him where he is, and Pleo also has a 16 bit CPU, 14 servo-motors, and 40 sensors. The robot’s producers (one of whom is Caleb Chung the co-inventor of the Furby) believe that the Pleo will have more natural movement than previous robots, and will be more involving due to his personality development over time.
Cnet has a video of this lil monster in action here.
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on February 13th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
Thanks for the link (to GoRobotics)! I’ve started another blog to document Pleo and all about him at www.PleoBot.com.
I’m curious to see how he’ll stack up against WowWee’s 2006 linueup. There’s also been speculation about his battery life.