Future Of Consumer Robotics May Rest On Toy Dinosaur
Here’s an article about Pleo on CNN Money’s website.
The 20-inch-long toy is a much-anticipated robotic device named Pleo, and it will finally ship next month to consumers after a year’s delay. Created by the same team who brought the world the Furby, the Pleo will also mark an advance in robotics, as it packs much of the functionality of far more expensive robotics toys into a much lower cost design.
The article mainly compares Pleo to Sony’s Aibo. David Calkins says Pleo, “is about one-fifth the cost of the Aibo, but it still has about half of Aibo’s functionality.”
Another interesting tidbit is that Pleo’s software was written in a programming language called “Pawn.” Robots.net has more info on this programming language and how it might be used on Pleo.
