Pleo, a personal companion (San Diego Transcript column)

We’ve grown up reading magazines such as Popular Science that predicted robots would cook us dinner, fetch our newspapers and vacuum our homes. But the future is here, and the advances in robotics in the consumer space have been disappointingly slow. A few products have had some limited success, such as iRobot Corp.’s Roomba vacuum cleaner. Its approach has been to discard the constraints of making a lifelike robot and develop an electromechanical product, designed to perform a single functio
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