Looking at it, it seems like a simple toy, a toy dinosaur.
Well, it definitely is a toy. But why are we talking about it in this blog?
In reality Pleo is a robot designed and engineered to mimic the movements and appearance of a baby Camarasaurus of a week old (bear in mind, of just a week!). It was created by Caled Chung, the co-founder of Furby, cute little soft toys that move and do a thousand things (the modern version can also be managed through smartphones).