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New Video - Caleb’s Tour of UGOBE Labs

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Ugobe has posted another video in their “Behind the Scenes: The Making of Pleo” series. This time, Caleb Chung, gives us a tour of Ugobe labs. In it we get to meet 12 of Ugobe’s employees - from the CTO, to the secretary, to Andrea the object regonition guy.
It looks like a fun workplace […]

Exclusive ROBOT Magazine Interview with Pleo’s Makers

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

This month’s issue of ROBOT Magainze features an exclusive interview with the makers of Pleo. In the article Tim Swieter talks with Ugobe’s Bob Christopher (CEO and Cofounder), John Sosoka (Chief Technical Officer), and Caleb Chung (Chief Inventor and Co-Founder).
Chung starts off by describing Ugobe’s vision, saying, “We are going after artifical life, […]

Ugobe Talks Back, “It’s Real. We Promise”

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

After posting on the controversy surrounding the similarity between the two Pleo videos, I emailed Ugobe about the issue. Here’s what I said:
I’ve been covering the latest Pleo
news at PleoBot and I’ve been surprised to see the reaction to this video.
It’s been rather strong.
I was wondering if I could get some official word from […]

PC Magazine Interviews Ugobe’s Bob Christopher

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

PC Magazine has published a lengthy interview with Bob Christopher, the CEO and Cofounder of Ugobe.
In the interview they cover how Ugobe differes from WowWee, Ugobe’s laws of robotics, how they plan on creating emotional bonds between users and their products, and availability of SDKs.
We also learn that the product timeframe for Pleo is […]