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 companies: the first, Vita Robotica, to develop a "completely new implementation of a brain for robots;" the other, Pulse-Robotics, to work on a sort of robo-OS for the thing. It sounds smart, but don't get your hopes up for a next-gen Pleo that can not only look cute but perhaps forage for food or do something useful. Sosoka is now focused on creating companion robots of the sort that could perhaps provide an alternative to therapy dogs. And here we thought
dancing to Britney Spears was the pinnacle of robo-evolution.
posted Sep 1st 2009 9:52AM
RobOS
Linkage: http://www.ros.org/wiki/
perhaps it isn't what they are doing but it is what they should be doing since recreating the wheel is stupid
Please, Engadget, put this thing on the same "let it go!" pile...
Currently on that pile, PS3 BC and a FULL OLED keyboard.
Seriously - what is the fascination with Pleo?
i'm no MS fanboy but when it comes to robot-OS one software rules them all: Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio. Sure it is difficult to master but when u do it can be highly rewarding
Dr. John Hammond?!?!!?!?
Look how he's caressing its ass. This is beastiality, or roboality..................
Brain OS, I wonder if human upgrades will be available. My internal spell checker does not work well.
Just the way all silly robot pets should go, and eventually do...
It failed because it was an expensive piece of crap.
LIZARD MEN RUN THE GOVERNMENT
Humans have been compromised. Kill the defector!!
It looks like Phil Jackson gained a little weight.
Actually the DNA is half Phil Jackson and half Congressman Barney Frank.
They never really finished the original Pleo to the specs that they promised, why should we believe them now? I mean, if it did everything it was promised to do my son wouldn't have a frickin' $400 paperweight sitting in his room.