As a followup to our previous story about Ugobe, it appears that they’ve just announced what their breakthrough product is - Pleo the robotic dinosaur. The official press release says, Pleo is modeled after a 1-week-old Camarasaurus sauropod, or long neck dinosaur, and incorporates basic trait
we have been selling these here in the UK, i must say the feed back from customers has been very positive and the word has certainly spread about this little pleo as regards to the numbers we have on pre order. its certainly going to be one of the top gifts this year for 2008. Everyone in my family now seems to want one… 
if anyone would like any further info on the pleo dinosaur then please visit our uk website:
we will be very happy to answer any questions…
Very neat and a step in the right direction.
Regarding taking on WowWee, the estimated 3-to-4 hours of battery life suggests that Ugobe will be hard pressed to compete with the WowWee Robonetics family on power management. I hope that improves as the Pleo design progresses.
J Wolfgang Goerlich
oh… why is it so difficult for anyone from ugobe.com to show this “hot” product a video to the consumer like me… I think it is just hype and completely waste of money like iCybie and Robosapien…
