Pleo
Pleo is a cute little robot dinosaur that acts like a living pet. It explores, learns, makes dinosaur noises, munches on (plastic) leaves, and demands that you give it your total, exclusive, unfettered attention.
- Creator
- Year
- 2006
- Country
- United States 🇺🇸
- Categories
- Features
Did you know?
Pleo is designed to emulate the appearance and behavior of a week-old baby Camarasaurus.
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History
Baby dinosaur robot Pleo was invented by Caleb Chung, who had co-invented Furby in 1998. Chung's company Ugobe, based in in Emeryville, Calif. (later renamed Pleoworld), shipped Pleo in late 2007, priced at US $349. The robot featured two 32-bit and four 8-bit microprocessors, 14 motors, a camera, two microphones, eight sensors under its rubberized skin, a tilt sensor, an infrared mouth sensor, fourteen force-feedback sensors, and four switches in its feet. In 2011, a new version of Pleo, called Pleo Reborn, was introduced by Innvo Labs, featuring upgraded software and user interactivity. The company's website currently lists the robot as "temporarily out of stock."
Specs
- Overview
Skin pattern modeled after that of a real Camarasaurus. Able to change its behavior over time and interact with other Pleos nearby.
- Status
Ongoing
- Year
2006
- Website
- Width
- 12.7 cm
- Height
- 17.8 cm
- Length
- 50.8 cm
- Weight
- 1.6 kg
- Speed
- 0.8 km/h
- Sensors
Color camera, infrared transmitter/receiver, temperature sensor, RFID reader, two microphones, ground foot sensors, orientation and motion sensor, touch sensors (head, chin, cheeks, shoulder, back, and thigh).
- Actuators
14 motors
- Degrees of Freedom (DoF)
- 14
- Materials
Skin made of soft thermoplastic elastomer material.
- Compute
Seven CPUs, two speakers, USB port, and SD card.
- Software
Life OS software platform controls sensors, actuators, and AI systems. SDK allows users to modify the robot's behavior.
- Power
Lithium-polymer battery
- Cost
- $469 (Pleo rb, released 2011)
