By Jennifer DeLeo
The four-legged 8-inch “Pleo” robotic dinosaur has oversized eyes, a toothy grin and short, pudgy legs and body. He’ll be virtually covered and stuffed with high-technology including a soft-polymer-based skin that cover a series of pressure sensors, infrared in the head to “see’ objects and avoid edges, a potentiometer in its belly, force-feedback sensors in its toes, one 16-bit CPU and a series of 8-bit chips, 14 servo motors and 40 sensors.
Designed by a new company called Ugobe, executives explain that this is a robot designed to create a roughly three-year relationship with the end users, where the robot will evolve overtime. Ugobe plans on releasing this sub-$200 personal “Life Forms” robot in the third quarter of this year.
cant wiat till pleo hits shelves
must buy and maybe quite revolutionary
Yes, It’s the best toy. But it costs 300 $ …