"Refer to "Pleo" as a robotic pet, and its inventor will quickly set you straight: Pleo is a designer life-form. 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, 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." Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/04/06/pleo.pet/index.html
One step closer to making machines act just like humans and other animals Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
` How long d'yer think it'll be before they devise "Cleo", the designer Hump-O-Tron ? "...Its movements are fluid, not rigid; its actions are seemingly spontaneous and unprogrammed; and its skin is smooth, seamless and stretchy...." Yeah, baby...! "...A complex computer program determines what "she" does next - howl over the edge of a table,(hadda keep that one - LoL) sqeal, crane its neck around 180 degrees to compliment your "manly girth", or any of thousands of other possibilities." Pretty soon they'll be everywhere... the playthings of CEO's, Presidents - hell, even the Pope ! No doubt to be accompanied by "Hero" the "automatic Adonis", with self-extending, super slurping, Tongue-O-Matic™ action !!! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
