Pleo, a Dinosaur Toy, The Cutest AI Around


	Pleo, a Dinosaur Toy, The Cutest AI Around

Silkweaver

8-8-2008 8:41 PM

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toys, robots, ai

Silkweaver says:

Quite amazing, I'm going to have one....

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