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9 Jun 2009When Ugobe shut down and sold all its assets, the future of Pleo was in flux. Today Jetta Company Limited, the company that was contracted to manufacture the dinosaur robots by Ugobe, announced acquisition of necessary IP and manufacturing rights to resume production.
Hong Kong – Jetta Company Limited acquired the assets of Ugobe and will [...]
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14 May 2009Another robot bites the dust. This time, it is Sony’s robotic MP3 player that could dance to your music by… flapping. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Sony is discontinuing the Rolly in North America (and presumably in the world soon) as the $600 toy that doesn’t do much probably didn’t find enough buyers to justify its existence.
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21 Apr 2009Ugobe, the maker of Pleo dinosaur robot has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which means they won’t be making the $350 Pleo dinosaurs anymore.
When it comes to easy-to-use and even easier-to-program universal remote, Harmony products always rank high. Logitech Harmony One is a worthy successor to last year’s 880 model, improving upon virtually all aspects.
One look at the remote and you’ll realize the button placement is more intuitive than ever before. Gone are the tiny buttons next [...]
The original “Evolution of Dance” video by Judson Laipply all the way back in 2006 was a sensation as he was able to feature many diverse dance stylings in a compact non-stop 6 minute routine. Now the makers of MechRC robot has programmed its upcoming robot to do the routine (and arguably better than the [...]
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10 Sep 2007First talked about on August 31, Sony’s Rolly SEP-10BT Sound Entertainment Player is set for its Japanese debut on September 28, 2007. It can play back MP3, ATRAC and AAC files stored on its 1GB internal memory, or use Bluetooth. As it plays the music, it can either dance to it on its own, or [...]
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31 Aug 2007Sony is set to unveil its latest robotic creation named Rolly. It’s rumoured to be a robot Walkman (a what?) as it features an intriguing choreography system allowing it to dance, move about, and change lights according to the music being played. Sounds like a feature my Aibo has had for a long time now…
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7 Aug 2007You know we’ve reached an apex of robotic development when the cuddly robots we develop can re-enact the human artform of commercials… watch as 3 Pleo dinobots party like it’s 1999.
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