The good folks at Nokia are never ones to rest. Not when they can come up with some new form of creepy pet in their spare time. This is a robot dog merged with a Nokia Internet tablet for a face. The first thing that you’ll notice is a creepy quasi-goofiness. The second thing that will strike you is that it actually gives the dog a personality which is very much lacking in most robo-pets.

The concept was thought up by some gifted Finnish children at a school that Nokia sponsors.(Just imagine what other beautiful atrocities these kids are dreaming up). Not much more to say about this puppy. Some things bark for themselves.

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Maybe you never found the right girl. Maybe none of them understand your crazy robot obsession. If that’s the case, Yabo just may be for you. But don’t expect that that will get you more human contact. According to Yabo’s portfolio, he’s the bot “for lonely unmarried persons.”

The spherical face rotates up and down, right and left, and even changes facial color.(If you are that lonely I don’t wanna know what you do to make him/her blush) While you are away, Yabo is presumably lonely without you as well, so he will keep your home’s temperature and humidity at a constant as well as keep unused items powered down.

If it passes the conceptual stage, some of it’s sensors would include hearing, feeling and infrared. It would also feature a built-in camera, speaker, wheels and an LCD display.

Whew! Got through the article without saying Yabo-Daba-Doo!

[Coroflot] VIA [Engadget]