Loads of bulletins and robots everywhere...

As I read on Robots Rules:
"Pleo is the exciting, adorable baby robot dinosaur, or artificial life form, that is taking the world by storm. Unlike other robot toys, Pleo has feeling and desires of his or her own. Pleo’s endearing lifelike movements and wonderfully realistic emotions will capture your imagination and steal your heart away. (Don’t want to wait? Click here to buy Pleo now.)"



But first I was reading on MAKE (one of my favourites feeds) that "GRIP 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."

So... going with the flow...
GRIP Group for Interdisciplinary Psychology
is a multi-professional workgroup of Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg / Germany. Our team of psychologists, medical and computer scientist concentrates on clarifying psychological questions concerning science, education and economics.
One focus in this connection is on the different levels of human-machine-interaction.

And they are making studies with Pleo. For about 1 hour you get in contact to this baby dinosaur spied by this team of psychologists. You can appoint by email or telephone.
And I answer a short online questionaire about the future scenarios describing possible future social fields of application of robots.

Why I did it?
I don't feel excited about this b a b y d i n o s a u r.
The GRIP website has no appeal at all. It is so cold. Actually is ugly... And the idea of a dinosaur... ???

I think I would like to work in one of this robots projects. Or maybe not!
Maybe I am just tired this lovely rainy winter night.
ZZZzzz...