Pleo, the early days

[junkroxy]

There are 23 new videos on youtube from Vorelco, a product Development Company was brought in to augment Ugobe's Pleo existing engineering capabilities. This are the clip-07/23, very interesting!:D

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[Roundy210]

the second one was really cool. Yay, CGI Pleo!

[degers]

Love the CG pleo! Looks so much more lifelike than the real one! :) Only kidding UGoBe, you did a great job.

[degers]

I dug up this information from volreco! Seems like it was a close call for Ugobe and for Pleo!

In 2005 Vorelco worked with Ugobe to help design the PLEO robotic toy dinosaur and provide I.P. strategies. Vorelco was responsible for electronics and sensor design and transition from wired to wireless control and I/O. Vorelco conducted an exhaustive patent search to determine patentability on the current design as well as new additional functions.

Ugobe found themselves in a real dilemma when their funding was about to be run out if they missed a major milestone which was the transition from wired control to wireless. With just a couple days from this critical deadline Vorelco worked around the clock and was able to achieve the deadline with only moments to spare.

This milestone was not easily achieved as the early prototype version was not ideally suited for battery power with its 11 servos, all of the R/C hobbyist variety. To add to the already burdensome task ahead there were countless bugs in the motion scripting and GUI. The amount of energy required to run the servos, controller and the wireless data link was so high that we had to load up batteries on Pleo like a pack mule. Under all that load Pleo could barely walk but all the investors needed was proof that Pleo could perform scripted motion without wires. In the end we accomplished this all important goal for our client and their backers released another round of funding leading the way to their current relationship.

[wgb]

Very interesting!

[fancyfont]

Great article.find, Degers.:)

[Robomom]

Thanks for the info. Makes you glad Ugobe managed to overcome all the potential roadblocks to getting Pleo out there for us.

[pleoguy101]

the second video was cool!:) and I'm so proud of GOBE and their awesomeness!:D