Your Ad Here

Video: Pleo gets new dance moves, alpha dev kit

We’ve seen the Pleo get shredded, overtaken by a Wii wand, and generally mocked for its status as a perennially endangered species. With no dignity left to protect, its makers have decided they might as well kick out an SDK, or PDK in this case, to let the great unwashed masses have their way with the originally autonomous bot. Still only in the alpha stage and not yet widely available, the dev kit has already borne fruit in the shape of a shockingly awesome dance video. We’ve got it for you after the break, but a warning first: prepare to fall in love all over again.

[Thanks, Eric]

Continue reading Video: Pleo gets new dance moves, alpha dev kit

Filed under:

Video: Pleo gets new dance moves, alpha dev kit originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • email
  • PDF
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Google Bookmarks
  • RSS

This post is tagged:

Leave a Reply





  • DARwIn-OP learns to skate, contemplates NHL career (video)DARwIn-OP learns to skate, contemplates NHL career (video)

    On the list of dangerous humanoid bots DARwIn is well topped by the bow-happy iCub . Still -- we do not trust this thing one iota. While we have not seen it pick up any weaponry just yet, our friends to the north are teaching it certainly one of man's most notoriously violent sports: hockey. Researchers on the University of Manitoba have managed to coach the previous RoboCup … »
  • NASA pulls the plug at the mainframe computer eraNASA pulls the plug at the mainframe computer era

    It is the end of another era at NASA, although this one was perhaps more inevitable than others. Chief Information Officer Linda Cureton announced in a blog post over the weekend that the agency's last mainframe computer was shut down this month, marking an end to decades of room-filling computers. Needless to say, that last mainframe was considerably newer than that pictured above.… »

Categories

Subscribe

Enter your email address: