This 2nd generation Pleo traces its lineage to the orignal version launched in 2006 - when a crowd of 500 attendees sang "Happy Birthday" to it at a new-technology conference. The birth of the Pleo was indeed a very significant day - not just for technologists, scientists and engineers, but for everyone of us who hold a vision of the future where advanced Robots work alongside Man working tireless
ly to assist in our daily chores and make life easier. We first had a glimps of this vision in 1942 when science fiction writer Isaac Asimov created the three laws of Robotics. It is now three quarters of a century later that we have the world's first fully autonomous Robotic Pet - the 2nd Generation Pleo. Caleb Chung, co-inventor of the Pleo, prefers that the Pleo be known as an artificial life form. That's because, on the outside, everything about the one-week-old Camarasaurus is very unrobotic. Its movements are fluid, not rigid; its actions are seemingly spontaneous and unprogrammed; and its skin is smooth, seamless and stretchy. 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. This marvel of technology and engineering is made possible by the manafacturing genius of the people at Jetta Company who make the Pleo at their 4.5 million square feet state of the art facility in Guangdong - where along with the Pleo other precision engineered parts are made for diverse industries including Aerospace and Robotics. We at Merlin Digital are privliged to be associated with the Commemorative Pleo Special Edition - a product we feel will be remembered as the harbinger of a new age of Robotics and the inspiration for a coming generation of scientists, engineers and programmers. We'd like to thank you, the customer, by including in this value bundle a Pleo Cape, Mini Pleo Cell Band and a 2GB SD Card to download and store PLEO Personality upgrades - these can be downloaded from www.pleoworld.com
