pleo, by the californian company ugobe, is a small interactive robot pet that looks like a baby dinosaur. ±€420. watch their videos.
it runs on ugobe's life operating system which is the complex platform of tools and technologies that enable pleo's mechanical, electronic, sensory, and AI systems to interact as a lifelike whole and evolve from a hatchling to a juvenile.
in terms of evolution, it could be the next in line after the aibo pet.