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 […]
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 […]
All of you that have signed up on Ugobe’s website to receive updates probably received an email late this afternoon. For those of you that didn’t, I’ll fill you in on some of the juicy tidbits.
First off, Ugobe “officially” announced that it’s pushing back the relase date of Pleo untill March (hopefully).
Secondly, the stated […]
I just got an email from Khristine Valdez, Ugobe’s PR person, containing some juicy tidbits relating to Pleo and his release date.
According to Valdez, Ugobe will begin taking preorders for Pleo on December 24th, and will continue to do so until Pleo is released on the world in early March. “Timing for product release […]
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, […]
Apparently Shift Communications is handling all of Ugobe’s public relations tasks.
The only companies that I recognized on Shift’s client list were Oakley, WebTrends, and, of course, Ugobe.
Shift also has a corporate blog talking about all things PR and marketing. Check it out, PR Squared.
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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 […]
A sharp-eyed internet denizen has put together an interesting video comparing the two videos that Ugobe has released of Pleo in action.
Check out the video below:
One one hand it probably wasn’t the best idea for Ugobe to use the exact same demo for both videos. On the other hand, they’re probably under a tremendous […]
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 […]
I found this interesting tidbit in this article on Ugobe.
The Pleo is not designed for teenagers, however. It doesn’t do the things teenage boys will want it to: fight. While you can train a Pleo to act somewhat aggressively, it’s no battle bot. For that, Christopher tells us to wait about 18 months, when […]
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