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Pleo
Posted on February 22nd, 2009 No commentsPleo is an animatronic dinosaur toy designed to emulate the appearance and (imagined) behavior of a week-old baby Camarasaurus. It was designed by Caleb Chung, the co-creator of the Furby, and is manufactured by Ugobe.
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Roomba
Posted on February 22nd, 2009 No commentsThe Roomba is a robotic vacuum cleaner made and sold by iRobot. The Roomba was introduced in 2002; several updates and new models have since been released. As of January 2008[update], over 2.5 million units have been sold.
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Sonny
Posted on February 21st, 2009 No commentsSonny is an NS-5 (Nestor Class-Five) robot from the film I, Robot. His voice and movement are provided by Alan Tudyk. Sonny was programmed by Dr. Alfred Lanning to break the first of the Three Laws of Robotics.
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iRobot PackBot
Posted on February 19th, 2009 No commentsPackBot is a series of military robots by iRobot. More than 2000 PackBots are currently on station in Iraq and Afghanistan, with hundreds more on the way.
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