Wisdom is the prime thing

I got to see one of these today: a robotic dinosaur. The Pleo homepage describes it as a “robotic baby dinosaur”. It has lots of sensors, and can be trained. I watched as it was trained to walk. It was pretty surprising when it was picked up and it start to nuzzle, coo in delight, and then fall asleep. The homepage has a little video showing what the dinosaur looks like and how it moves.

The Wikipedia article gives more details of its impressive specs. One interesting section from the article:

Recently, a video was releaased where a Pleo was tortured until he supposedly died. Most people doubt that he really ‘died’. However, it has been proven that extreme abuse WILL cause it to “die”, but it can be brought back to life.

There is even a video of this, that I won’t link to, but it makes the following statement:

We don’t recommend doing this. In fact, we killed our Pleo by the end of it. Don’t worry though. Eventually we got him up and running again, and after a few chin scratches and some petting he was his cute cheerful self again, so all seems forgiven. But just in case it isn’t, we now keep him locked in a drawer at night….

PS: Yes, we know we’re going to Pleo hell for this.