They’re calling it a ‘life form’ it learns, adapts to it environment and can be programmed using a simple interface to perform tricks, sing and dance. He also get’s angry from time to time.
Gamasutra did a good article on him and ugobe the company behind it – they’d like games developers to make content so pleo can become a real world NPC and even a new game development platform.
pleo home
http://www.pleoworld.com
Lots of video
http://www.pleoworld.com/videos
The Gamasutra Article
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17995
Cheers,
Ian