Thinks

Pleo: Robot, pet or both?

14 motors and 40+ sensors including an array of capacitive touch sensors under the skin, colour camera, microphones and IR, tilt, ground and force feedback sensors.

Read more about how it works and see inventor Caleb Chung talk about it at TED (12 mins in). Although he says it’s ‘open’ to modification but only on a superficial level at the moment, i.e. new animations and sounds, etc. However, the PDK (aka SDK) is ‘soon’ to be released. Hardware hacking-wise, GRIP (the Group for Interdisciplinary Psychology) have added a better camera and radio link.