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grip-online.com - 8/8/2008
Group for Interdisciplinary Psychology
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Hacking Pleo Working with the Pleo Platform Pimp My Pleo According to the brochure, Pleo is an "artificial lifeform" produced by Ugobe. Pleo is a robot with the shape of a small dinosaur. The explicit aim of Pleos developers was to build a rebot, that interacts especially on the emotional level with its owner. This relativly new approach to human-robot-interaction makes Pleo an ...

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MAKE Magazine:  Adding facial recognition and RF control to Pleo

SlashGear:  Pleo XBee wireless & facial recognition hacks

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Adding facial recognition and RF control to Pleo
MAKE Magazine — ... GRIP (Group for Interdisciplinary Psychology), a multi-professional workgroup at Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Germany, has several detailed tutorials on adding a "spycam" to Pleo, to create a facial recognition system (via off-bot processing on a PC), and an XBee Module for RF communications to/from Pleo. Working with the Pleo Platform [Thanks, Robert!] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Robotics | Digg this!

Pleo XBee wireless & facial recognition hacks
SlashGear — ... Ugobe’s Pleo robotic dinosaur may be a cute toy, but it’s also a useful starting point for messing about with robotics.  A team at Otto-Friedrich-University in Bamberg, Germany, calling themselves GRIP (Group for Interdisciplinary Psychology) have posted two tutorials designed to wirelessly connect Pleo to a remote computer and give him the ability to recognise faces. ...

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