Comments on: Maker Faire 08: Pleo vs. ComBot (Graphic Robot Destruction)

By: Michele Peggion

Michele Peggion — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:01:05 +0000

My kid look at the video…. You have big psichycal problem… What does it mean that????? Are you proud about that fight??!!?? You may think ‘it’s just a machine… So explain this to a 5 years old kid!’… I think it’s a disgusting video.

All the Pleos I sold have been bought by family and – overall – kids. When they meet me they are happy, because it’s not a machine… Fighting!!! Why!?=!?!?!?!?!!?

There’s no word to define your obscured minds…

By: Diar Talabani

Diar Talabani — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:19:53 +0000

If this robot, ‘Pleo’ was intended to simulate some life form which was intended to arise some emotion in us, some sort of sympathy for it, then what does it say when a creation who’s sole purpose is to make us feel empathy is put in an arena style cage along with an RC car and some sort of circular saw blade attached to it?

On average we see more death on television to rival a thousand pleo’s being sawed by a million little unimaginative RC cars with rotor blades, but what it symbolizes is something that we haven’t seen before, and what we haven’t seen before is a new vision to us and an old idea that is wrapped in new garments for our mental faculties, and that is this; We are now, very much self satisfied, the authors of our own horrors on every level, from war fare to sub society niche entertainment.

Brave New World indeed…

By: mile wilder

mile wilder — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:08:06 +0000

My 7 year old is desperate for a Pleo this Christmas.
I think it’s cute but (here in the UK) way overpriced!!

By: raptorkill

raptorkill — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:09:53 +0000

if this is what ugobe allows to happen then they realy have no respect for there own product. so how do they expect the customers to take them seriously and buy there products.

By: from Japan

from Japan — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:43:19 +0000

This is awful. Preo is poor.
These people do not love chancing.

By: whataslacker

whataslacker — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:52:05 +0000

I could not even watch the video! I have been wanting one of these since I first read about the in WIRED way back during initial development. Now I too must save a Pleo!

By: Robo Dave

Robo Dave — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:14:33 +0000

Now why couldn’t they have found a “Barney” the obnoxious purple dinosaur and killed it? That I would pay money to watch.
Or maybe “tickle me elmo”, light it on fire, and watch it laugh it’s ass off while it’s ripped to flaming shreds? Now THAT would be worth watching…

By: Casey

Casey — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:40:38 +0000

Reminds me of the robot demolition in Stephen Speilberg’s A.I.

By: Dane

Dane — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:09:23 +0000

Oh, this is sad. The Pleo really does make you feel emotion toward it, and it’s a bummer to see him “killed”.

By: roboto

roboto — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:58:04 +0000

the horror…the horror