PLEO the robo-dino was designed to emulate the appearance and behavior of a week-old baby Camarasaurus. It was designed by Caleb Chung, the co-creator of the Furby, and manufactured by Ugobe. This is the closest thing to the real thing (as of the moment) its skin is smooth, seamless and stretchy, its movements are not rigid; its actions are seemingly spontaneous and unprogrammed. Inside, however, the 3.3-pound Pleo is very robotic indeed. It’s stuffed with 38 sensors to detect light, motion, touch and sound. They feed information about Pleo’s environment to one of eight processors that can handle a collective 60 million calculations per second. A complex computer program determines what the dino does next—howl over the edge of a table, sneeze, crane its neck around 180 degrees to see who’s scratching its back, or any of thousands of other possibilities. As Pleo’s manufacturer, Ugobe in Emeryville, California, develops more sophisticated personality coding, you’ll be able to upgrade the robot through its SD-card slot or from the Web through its USB port.
Indeed it's promising but can it really replace your cat/dog pet?
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