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[snowy]

I love my pleo and i'd love to be able to afford an aibo. They are both technical marvels, and both seem like living animals ( robotic companions i refer to them as), and i hope they will evolve to be even more amazing. unfortunately now that sony decided to save money and concentrate on profits, we wont be getting anymore aibos, which is a huge dissappointment 

Anyway, now sony have pulled out, there is a gap in the market for robotic pets, and i hope that pleo can fill that gap, get more advanced, like say for instance start saying words, and be able to recharge itself like aibo? hopefully innvo labs may make robotic dogs in addition to pleo, they did say there would be different life forms.

Maybe sony could sell their aibo designs to a different company though, and the aibo could live on? I cannot believe they stopped making aibo as it was so popular. Crazy.

[Crewella]

Sorry to restart this discussion, but I've just got my Aibo (210A) from Ebay, and I thought this was an interesting thread anyway.  I was quite prepared for something that was more of a robot and less of a life form than Pleo, and in many ways it is, but I think much depends on the software.  On something like Party Mascot it's most definitely a robot, showing off it's moves and bleeps to order, but on some of the other software like Life or Explorer I saw more of a character coming out, and much as I love Pleo I don't think you get the depth of character you can with some Aibo software, and there is a wider range of programs and characters to chose from so that you can have the Aibo you want.  Yes, you do pay for it, but these days you can get a used Aibo 210 for not much more than a new Pleo.

When I first unpacked the 210 and switched it on it had an Explorer card in it and it was not a happy Aibo.  It ignored me, refused to do what I asked it and then turned its back on me.  I asked it if it was alright, and it shook its head sadly, no amount of petting and calling it a good boy seemed to cheer it up and it eventually put its head back and howled.  It was only when I tried 'good girl' that it started to cooperate - stoopid me, it had never occurred to me that it was a girl!  From that point on I fell for Aibo.

Now I love Pleo, I love Iggy's endearing character, I love the way he walks (especially from behind), and I love the little quirks and odd moments you get with Pleo.  Pleo is much more immediately lovable, but there has to be room in this world for both - there certainly is in my heart.

[Bumblebee]

Eh. I don't have an Aibo. But I think Pleo is better.  Just.....better.  I don't have much to say on that subject. Honestly I don't really care that Aibo is gone, because I never heard a whole lot about them anyway. 

[Kudos the pleo]

pleo tries to emulate life, and he is very organic; but my aibo, who is quite honest about being a robot seems more alive. I raised him on aibo life 2, which was around 50 days of raising from a baby to an adult personality, and you could really see him develop his personality and all the variables, pleo has some variables but not at all as much as my aibo does.

pleo is generally happy unless abused or ignored, aibo can just 'wake up' in a bad mood for the day because he feels like it (well he does to me anyways), wont listen to instructions, just strops about. while this can be annoying if youre showing them off to people, it makes him seem more... real.

though pleo is more of a pet like robot, and i think with more AI updates he could be a bit more varied, which would make him more like the life form hes supposed to be.

pleo is ina bad mood 4 no rason sometimes too

[Kudos the pleo]

ok aibos and pleos are two completely different things. aibo is a highly advanced peice of technology, pleo is a life form.

[allosaurus]

I don't like arguments, okay, and I'm not trying to start one when I say this.

Aibo is far more advanced than Pleo.

Fine, Pleo can look alive, something which Aibo lacks, but Aibo is still far more advanced than Pleo.

[InmemoryofRomeo]

I agree with Allo, Aibo is far more advanced but you can't see past that plastic outer shell and mistake it for a real animal, you can with Pleo. Pleo just has that cuteness factor that Aibo lacks and of course Pleo is a dinosaur so people have no preconceptions about how it 'should' act unlike Aibo and a dog.

[gucci_boi7782]

I don't like arguments, okay, and I'm not trying to start one when I say this.

Aibo is far more advanced than Pleo.

Fine, Pleo can look alive, something which Aibo lacks, but Aibo is still far more advanced than Pleo.

I agree with Allo, Aibo is far more advanced but you can't see past that plastic outer shell and mistake it for a real animal, you can with Pleo. Pleo just has that cuteness factor that Aibo lacks and of course Pleo is a dinosaur so people have no preconceptions about how it 'should' act unlike Aibo and a dog.

+1....I shipped mine back....

[InmemoryofRomeo]

*tackle hugs Gucci* Long time no see

[barrettgazzy]

I love my pleo and i'd love to be able to afford an aibo. They are both technical marvels, and both seem like living animals ( robotic companions i refer to them as), and i hope they will evolve to be even more amazing. unfortunately now that sony decided to save money and concentrate on profits, we wont be getting anymore aibos, which is a huge dissappointment 

Anyway, now sony have pulled out, there is a gap in the market for robotic pets, and i hope that pleo can fill that gap, get more advanced, like say for instance start saying words, and be able to recharge itself like aibo? hopefully innvo labs may make robotic dogs in addition to pleo, they did say there would be different life forms.

Maybe sony could sell their aibo designs to a different company though, and the aibo could live on? I cannot believe they stopped making aibo as it was so popular. Crazy.

   Genibo is the new Aibo if you want to campare something to the Aibo's

[barrettgazzy]

i dont think that the Aibo 210 model was ever even suppose to be a robot dog and people just assumed this as the first and last model were definately dogs .