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30 Nov 2009 08:49:30 PST

Pleo a dinosaur-robot toy, some action shot in HD. vimeo.com

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Pleo Roars Again! Lovable Pet Dinosaur Returns for the Holidays with ... - Earthtimes

23 Nov 2009 00:23:36 PST

Pleo Roars Again! Lovable Pet Dinosaur Returns for the Holidays with ... The Pleo robot dinosaur is back, in time for the holidays. The website is back up, there's a new 2009 Pleo model, and Pleo's new owner Innvo Labs is set to ... Pleo Robot Dinosaur Is Back For The HolidaysI4U

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Turning Out The Lights: Advanced Power Projects

09 Nov 2009 12:43:50 PST

vice chair of corporate development at Washington Mutual Inc. Ugobe Inc., Eagle, Idaho - The maker of the Pleo robotic dinosaur - a lifelike, ... and more »

Original story at Wall Street Journal .

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

26 Oct 2009 20:30:01 PDT

Written by roschler(noreply@blogger.com)
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.

Original story at robotsrule.com .

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

01 Sep 2009 07:52:00 PDT

Written by Tim Stevens
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...

Original story at Engadget .

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Techies flock to new robot center

05 May 2009 12:56:47 PDT

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 ...

Original story at The Japan Times .

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Pleo news and blogs - December 10, 2009

10 Dec 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Pleo news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Yellow Drum Machine Beats On Other Bots At RoboDays 2009 -- by Evan Ackerman from BotJunkie
• Kelly Meets - Part 1 - Video -- from Google Videos - -site:youtube.com Pleo Ugobe OR Camarasaurus OR robot OR dinosaur OR "life form" OR sensors OR "force feedback sensors" OR motors OR Chung OR Pleos OR dino OR Furby OR Aibo OR "SD card" OR lifelike OR "color camera" OR infrared OR "baby dinosaur" OR robotics OR robotic OR toy OR Robosapien OR USB OR "two microphones" OR robots OR tail OR "facial recognition" OR hatchling OR ShiftComm OR SmartPill OR "motor control" OR Shred
• Lifelike robot used for rehabilitation at Sacred Heart -- from Leader-Telegram
• Day 1 highlights from DEMO 2006 -- from Google Video - -site:youtube.com Pleo Ugobe OR Camarasaurus OR robot OR dinosaur OR "life form" OR sensors OR "force feedback sensors" OR motors OR Chung OR Pleos OR dino OR Furby OR Aibo OR "SD card" OR lifelike OR "color camera" OR infrared OR "baby dinosaur" OR robotics OR robotic OR toy OR Robosapien OR USB OR "two microphones" OR robots OR tail OR "facial recognition" OR hatchling OR ShiftComm OR SmartPill OR "motor control" OR Shred
• Tech-savvy Japanese on holiday tinker with robots -- from The Canadian Press
• Turning Out The Lights: Ugobe, Maker Of Robotic Dinosaur -- from Wall Street Journal
• slashgear Week in Review - Week 17 2009 -- from SlashGear
• Ugobe, Maker of Pleo, Files For Bankruptcy -- from Slashdot
• Eagle-based company Ugobe, creator of Pleo, files Chapter 7 bankruptcy -- from IdahoStatesman.com
• Ugobe Inc., maker of Pleo, becomes extinct -- from Forbes

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Roomba, Terminator Named Robot Hall of Fame Inductees

21 Apr 2009 13:52:11 PDT

NY While Hall of Fame organizers see this as an encouraging sign, the announcement comes just one day after one of the more promising consumer robots, Ugobe's Pleo robot dinosaur, disappeared from the market for good.. Selected by a team of scholars, ...

Original story at Gearlog .

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

03 Apr 2009 17:43:00 PDT

Written by Nilay Patel
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...

Original story at Engadget .

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How to control Pleo wirelessly using Wii nunchuck

01 Apr 2009 02:16:13 PDT

Written by rss@youtube.com (mikhalchuk)
Author: mikhalchuk Keywords: pleo robotics wireless nunchuck hack robostuff Added: April 1, 2009

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Pleo Party (The Sequel), Price Drop, and Quotes from Owners

29 Mar 2009 19:36:21 PDT

Written by roschler(noreply@blogger.com)
The extremely cool part is that Pleos belonging to other party attendees started mooing along with my Pleos, even though they were hundreds if not thousands of miles away from where I live! Apparently they had their Pleos listening in to the broadcast and when my Pleos let loose with a baby...

Original story at robotsrule.com . Related stories include: Pleo Reincarnation Program - robotsrule.com , Pleo On Good Morning America! - robotsrule.com

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Help Save Pleo From Being Fed To The Dogs!

07 Nov 2008 10:37:17 PST

Written by roschler(noreply@blogger.com)
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!

Original story at robotsrule.com . Related stories include: New Ugobe Lifeforms Next Year (2009)! - robotsrule.com

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Pleo V2? Coming Soon

21 Sep 2008 10:06:00 PDT

Written by noreply@blogger.com (getvisible)
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.

Original story at Pleo Toy Dinosaur .

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Latest Pleo Hack With Facial Recognition

10 Aug 2008 00:42:00 PDT

Written by noreply@blogger.com (getvisible)
It seems that Pleo has not only been a cute toy for kids but also something for the newbie robotics engineer can get their teeth into. A team of, not-so-newbies, at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany has shown how to connect Pleo wirelessly to a remote computer and give him th...

Original story at Pleo Toy Dinosaur .

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Hacking Pleo for face recognition and remote control

07 Aug 2008 06:44:00 PDT

Written by Caleb Kraft
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...

Original story at hack a day .

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

02 Jul 2008 14:12:00 PDT

Written by Brian Heater
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 ...

Original story at Gearlog .

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

29 Apr 2008 06:39:26 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Pocket-lint.co.uk .

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Patch: Ugobe releases 1.1 update for Pleo's software

02 Apr 2008 13:47:47 PDT

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 ...

Original story at robots.net .

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Jurassic Perk: A Dino at Home

05 Feb 2008 16:01:00 PST

Written by Katherine Boehret
This baby dinosaur has reptile-like, rubbery skin enhanced by multiple sensors. Its back is decorated with green patterns, and its large eyes are a beautiful blue. Pleo’s guts include 14 motors, 38 sensors and a microprocessor. Infrared detectors are hidden in Pleo’s nose and mouth, and a...

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Pleo and kids

16 Jan 2008 12:48:27 PST

Written by John Biggs
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...

Original story at CrunchGear .

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Podcast: Unboxing Live 027: Pleo Dinosaur

21 Dec 2007 16:38:50 PST

In this episode, we unbox one of the hottest wish-list items for the 2007 holiday season - the Ugobe Pleo robotic baby dinosaur!

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

12 Dec 2007 21:28:53 PST

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...

Original story at mevio.com .

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

12 Dec 2007 21:28:53 PST

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NEWS: Robo-dino toy UGOBE Pleo website live NOW!!

21 Jun 2007 08:10:02 PDT

Going to be the best robot slash dino slash RC-type toy ever!!

Original story at Pocket-lint.co.uk .

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Ugobe Unveils New Pleo Box and Battery Plan

22 May 2007 22:53:11 PDT

Written by Lance Ulanoff
It's been well over a year since I first... It's been well over a year since I first heard of Ugobe's super-cute answer to the world's personal robot needs. Since then, I've seen Ugobe's Pleo robotics dinosaur in person and been charmed by its smiling face and lifelike motion. I've also met with P...

Original story at eWeek .

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Pleo: The New Robotic "Designer Life Form"

22 Feb 2006 07:31:27 PST

Written by Matt Largo
The next big "must-have" toy this year, may be in the form of a one-week old baby Camarasaurus. One of the co-creators of Furby, Caleb Chung, is putting the finishing touches on a new animatronic dinosaur called Pleo.Eight years ago the Furby doll was all the rage, with sales of over 40 millio...

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