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The Inside Story Behind Pleo’s Rise, Fall, and Resurrection

The Rise of Pleo DD: The fixes in the new Pleos now sold online at the Pleo World online store are: RO: Will you transfer the personality too? (Pleo’s learned behaviors and traits). DD: Absolutely. You can download it off the Pleo World web site.
Mon, Oct 26 | from robotsrule.com

Pleo lover and former Ugobe CTO John Sosoka separates robo-mind and robo-body with two new companies

Why did Pleo-maker Ugobe fail? There are many reasons, but former CTO John Sosoka thinks one of them is that the one company tried to do too much, working on both hardware and software for the lovable little paleolithic guy. Live and learn, as they say, and so his next venture is not one but two...
Tue, Sep 1 | from Engadget

CES 2008: Toy Robots

Kevin and Olivia play with the WowWee Tribot and the Ugobe Robot Pleo. www.imdb.com
Sun, May 24 | from imdb.com

Techies flock to new robot center

Japan Tokyo's only major store devoted to robots, it sells robots of all shapes and sizes, including not only Vstone products but also the tiny scuttling Robo-Q from Tomy Co. and the Pleo animatronic dinosaur toy from the now bankrupt Ugobe Inc. of the US ...
Tue, May 5 | from The Japan Times

Opinion: Pleo-maker Ugobe not totally dead, not totally okay

It certainly seemed like Ugobe was dead-forever a few days ago when we noted that the company's website was seemingly gone and no one was answering the phones, but it's apparently not all bad: the site's back up, and CEO Caleb Chung told the Idaho Business Review today that the company's wi...
Fri, Apr 3 | from Engadget

How to control Pleo wirelessly using Wii nunchuck

Author: mikhalchuk Keywords: pleo robotics wireless nunchuck hack robostuff Added: April 1, 2009
Wed, Apr 1 | from YouTube

Help Save Pleo From Being Fed To The Dogs!

Please visit her blog and comment on her post about Pleo and her final feelings on him. Let her know why we love Pleo so much and open her heart to the idea of letting little Nathaniel live! She loves pets so somewhere inside her there most be a spark of mercy for our little baby Camarasaurus!
Fri, Nov 7 | from robotsrule.com

Pleo V2? Coming Soon

So what next for Pleo? Well I doubt they'll be able to make significant review streams from accessories and updates so the only option left to them would be to build a new model of Pleo with advanced features. My belief is that we'll have a new Pleo ready for next Christmas.
Sun, Sep 21 | from Pleo Toy Dinosaur

Hacking Pleo for face recognition and remote control

GRIP, the Group for Interdisciplinary Psychology at the University of Bamberg have put together a couple tutorials on hacking the Pleo. For those unfamiliar, the Pleo is a small robot shaped like a dinosaur. Their goal was to make it cute and simulate emotion at a higher level than previous...
Thu, Aug 7 | from hack a day

WALL-E, Pleo, WowWee, and More: This Year's Best Robot Toys

Pleo: When Pleo was finally made available to the robot-buying public a year ago, the lovable infant dinosaur quickly won over skeptics with his playful, puppylike personality. Pleo is a 3.5-pound autonomous robot dinosaur ready to be ...
Wed, Jul 2 | from Gearlog

Pleo robot dinosaur review - Pocket-lint.co.uk

Pleo robot dinosaur review UK - 29 April 2008 - Pleo is a friendly looking robot dinosaur Camarasaurus, but is it any better than other robots on the market, or is this just another ...
Tue, Apr 29 | from Pocket-lint.co.uk

Patch: Ugobe releases 1.1 update for Pleo's software

Ugobe, Inc. has released a new version of software for Pleo, their baby robot dinosaur. This update adds several new behaviors including singing, the ability to sit on his hind legs, a new high stepping gait to accommodate difficult ...
Wed, Apr 2 | from robots.net

Pleo and kids

So what did I see when he began interacting with Pleo? Well, I realized that he was immediately comfortable with the proposition of a life-like dinosaur in the living room. He is, in fact, afraid of it the same way he was afraid of these miniature horses we saw last summer in Greece. He knows it a...
Wed, Jan 16 | from CrunchGear

Podcast: Unboxing Live 027: Pleo Dinosaur

In this episode, we unbox one of the hottest wish-list items for the 2007 holiday season - the Ugobe Pleo robotic baby dinosaur!
Fri, Dec 21 | from blip.tv

Podcast: Geek Brief Radio #0274 (audio) | GeekBrief.TV

Since I started the holiday season, I've wanted to do a robot Brief, but I'm disappointed in robotics right now. There are some fun robots available and there are some practical robots available, but it seems like we're a long, long way from the robots of our dreams. I've had a Roomba for more t...
Wed, Dec 12 | from mevio.com

The new Furby?

Now, Chung is hoping to repeat the success of Furby with his newest creation: Pleo, the robotic dinosaur. Scheduled to hit stores sometime this summer, Pleo is Furby on steroids. With 14 motors and sixteen processors, a nose-mounted camera and 30 sensors, this dino can avoid obstacles and...
Fri, Jun 15 | from Blogging Baby