[Robert] sent us some news on Pleo’s future. Apparently a company called Jetta has bought the rights to Pleo during the bankruptcy sale. They intend on re releasing the cute little robot. They mention that they have built parts for the iRobot line. We wonder what they’ll do, if anything, to make it more appealing.
It has something to do with robots, although Pleo is not appealing to me because of the price. If they bring it down, maybe I’d play with it for some time.
Posted at 8:07 am on Jun 9th, 2009 by Phreakazoid
it has almost as much with hacking as arduino.
Posted at 8:49 am on Jun 9th, 2009 by kiberkomunist
It is a great example of failure. Valuable information for anyone that wants to market anuthing. But I agree, dosent have much to do here.
Posted at 9:02 am on Jun 9th, 2009 by maxster
Wow! Maybe that’s why it’s “filed under: news”
Posted at 9:52 am on Jun 9th, 2009 by Del
OH NO, it appears a web site has chosen to publish information I do not find directly relevant to my interests! WHAT SHALL I DO?
I know, I shall post comments regarding the nature of the information and how it clearly has little or nothing to do with my own perceived purpose of the web site.
Posted at 11:35 am on Jun 9th, 2009 by dirk
First thing they should do is give it back it’s original prototype skin decoration so it looks more like a ‘real’ dino than a cartoon robot – http://dvice.com/pics/Pleo_side_view.jpg
Posted at 12:34 pm on Jun 9th, 2009 by Haku
Haku: the original skin was deemed to expensive and fragile for mass production
Posted at 1:05 am on Jun 10th, 2009 by Hackius
Yup.
The price has to come down.
Then I’m there.
Glad they saved the little guy, though.
Posted at 1:23 pm on Jun 10th, 2009 by democratsarefascists
the new chinese company will surely bring the prices down…and so will the quality. A lot of pleos were breaking before. Expect it to break even more…
Posted at 4:06 pm on Jun 10th, 2009 by Rampage
Pleo does not appeal to those who like robotis that look like robots.
I wish they would make more real ROBOTS and less silly toys.
Posted at 8:41 am on Jun 11th, 2009 by walt
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