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 the [...]
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 mix [...]
Early Pleo prototype without his skin!
The little guy looks a little scary like this!
Pleo sure looks like he’s enjoying it!
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.
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!
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.
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 to [...]
Ugobe, take note:
Do you think Pleo is best for …
* Males: 20% (13)
* Females: 11% (7)
* Both: 69% (45)
Total Votes : 65
There is also a new poll up.
It looks like Ugobe is very close to inking a new rounding of funding to the tune of $8 Million USD. This, in addition to the $2.7M they raised in their first round earlier this year, puts them at close to $11 Million USD. This new round of funding should allow them to do more [...]
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