More Pleo Details (and Pictures!)
Pleo prototype and John Sosoka
The SF Gate published an article on Pleo recently. In it, they reveal a few new details. For instance, Pleo will weight about 4 lbs. They also give us some help on the perplexing camera problem.
Using a camera installed in its nose, it sees and tracks faces and locations. It communicates with other Pleos through infrared technology — and it can even catch a cold.
That’s not quite as satisfying of an answer I’d like to hear, but at least it’s a start. You can also just barely see the hole in Pleo’s nose in the picture, where I believe the camera is.
They also say that Pleo comes, “with a rechargeable battery that lasts about three hours at a time.”
As far as the company goes, we now know,
… employs about a dozen people at its headquarters in Emeryville and an additional 10 at its research and development lab in Boise, Idaho, has raised $2.75 million in funding and is negotiating another round of venture capital.
[Via Robots and Artificial Intelligence Blog]
