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To understand Pleo you have to understand the company behind it, UGOBE. They are very passionate about Pleo and when you see their laws for what a UGOBE Life Form must be, it's easy to understand the intensity of thought behind Pleo's construction. The three laws are:

• A UGOBE Life form shall have the ability to feel and convey emotions. Through a combination of physical appearance, emotive gesture and artificial intelligence, UGOBE Life forms will speak in this very human dialect.
  
  
• A UGOBE Life form will be aware of itself and its environment. Through a combination of sensors including sight, sound, touch and motion, a UGOBE Life form will be able to feel, explore and interpret its world.
  
  
• A UGOBE Life form will evolve over time. As its environment and human interactions change, a UGOBE Life form will learn, adapt and change with them.
  

If I had not seen the Demo.com video of Pleo I would have looked at these three laws as a nice marketing tool on their part. But, as I watch that video, if I treat the three laws as a test, Pleo passes that test with flying colors. What is most telling is UGOBE's primary mandate for their robot dinosaur, the ability to feel and convey emotions.

From the video I am sure that Pleo does indeed convey emotions so, does Pleo feel emotions? Perhaps soon we will be asking "Does Pleo dream?". I don't know the answer to that, but I can say with certainty that millions of children and adults will be dreaming of Pleo.