Archive for November, 2006

Pleo Visits Scifi Tech Blog

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

Side view of Pleo
Pleo recently visited the Scifi Tech blog headquarters and showed off his stuff (and here’s part two of the article). Here’s an interesting excerpt from the post:
Ugobe hopes to spark a whole Pleo community by allowing users to essentially “hack” the robot — possibly to do things like take pictures with […]

Another Look At Pleo - More Pictures!

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Pleo at a hotel
Notcot.com has another nice writeup about Pleo.
For the skeptics ~ i can’t explain it ~ there’s something about the experience of the interaction that they’ve nailed. With a camera in his nose, various programed play patterns (he can do a body wave, shake hands, downward dog!, and more) which will even […]

Pleo Skinless!

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Early Pleo prototype without his skin!
The little guy looks a little scary like this!

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Pleo Gets Petted

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Pleo sure looks like he’s enjoying it!

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Pleo Videos

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

The recent PC Magazine article on Pleo contained several videos of Pleo in action. Unfortunately, there’s no sound, but here they are for your viewing enjoyment.

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Pleo Wins TIME’s Invention of the Year Award

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

Our robotic pal, Pleo, has been awarded the TIME Magazine “Invention of the Year” award, along with YouTube, a wall climbing robot, and an easy drying umbrella.
Congratulations to Ugobe and Pleo!

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More Pleo Pictures!

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

Here are some pictures of Pleo from the recent PC Magazine article.

Side view of Pleo

Pleo!

Pleo’s head

A back shot of the Pleo prototype.

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A Flurry of Pleo News

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

There’s been a flurry of Pleo posts on the internet over the past day or so thanks to an article by Lance Ulanoff of PC Magazine. In the post Lance details how Bob Christopher brought over a prototype of Pleo to the PC Magazine offices to show him off.
Ulanoff says:
Pleo is cute, fairly cuddly […]