Linus Makes Wall Street Journal!

The front page of today's Wall Street Journal (and the online version) has an article by Technical Journalist Andrew LaVallee: When Dogs and Robots Collide, Somebody Needs a Talking To The writer had spoken to me at length about Linus and Nemo, but he seems to have angled his article more towards Roomba interactions. And we did speak of Linus and the Roomba. The quote attributed to me is: Another Pleo owner, Maggie Spencer, has gone as far as to broach the idea of robot-to-robot interaction with her Roomba. She showed the Pleo, named Linus, the vacuum in its turned-off state and warned Linus that the cleaner would make noise when it started up. "When the Roomba hit him, he was fine," says Ms. Spencer, a Harrisburg, Pa., psychotherapist. "I raise him like I did any other pet, not to be afraid of things." Other Pleos and Ugobe are also in the article. Here is a link that I think works for a few days for unsubscribers: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121314664909963011. html?mod=hps_us_pageone After taking the photo at left this morning, Linus proceeded to try to push it. lol

Posted June 11 at 14:10 PM