We heard just earlier this month that Pleo, the lovable dinosaur robot was going to be made available again thanks to Jetta buying out the rights for the bot from original maker Ugobe. But availability for the dino was questionable.

Now, it seems Pleo will be available in the U.S. thanks to Senario. There are still plenty of these bots in stock and ready to be purchased from a number of outlets. So, there you have it, folks. Pleo lives on for another day!

[robots.net]

If you’ve been feeling bad about Pleo’s extinction, here’s some good news. Bankrupt Ugobe’s intellectual property and assets, which includes the lovable Pleo, are being snapped up by Jetta Company, which currently manufactures Pleo.

The company plans to re-launch Pleo and says that all its manufacturing processes for Pleo and related accessories are still intact.

[Engadget]

Mouse or robot dinosaur? No one knows for sure. But thank god the transformers in the new Transformers movie don’t look as cheap as these. These are like the Ravage Transforming USB flash drive, just not as awesome.

Disguise your mouse as a dinosaur, or disguise your dinosaur as a mouse. Obviously you need to make them fight at some point. Only a whooping $60 and due in September 2009.

It’s a 800 dpi three button laser mouse for you to play with while searching Google images for Megan Fox playing with large transforming robots.

[SB]

Pleo is adorable. Horrifically so. And it’s now only $249 from Amazon. Hell yeah! It beats the hell out of getting a puppy for Christmas.

[Amazon]

I have seen the face of human death and mass carnage. It walks upright and takes the form of a dinosaur. We are all screwed beyond belief. I’m building a bunker.

Peter Dilworth from MIT’s Leg Lab has constructed this killer bipedal walking robot based on a Troodon dinosaur.

It was for the robot to stand up from a sitting position, to walk and possibly run, go back to walking and stop and then sit down and be stable, and not fall over in any phase. It has proven extremely difficult to make bipedal robots. People assume that flight is hard to do while walking is easy; actually it’s the reverse.

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The Mattel D-Rex Interactive Robot Dinosaur has arrived. You can get it from Amazon for $149.99 Shipped! He’s not as expensive or as smart as Pleo, but he does respond to voice commands and touch. It will even attack on command, It is a Tyrannosaurus Rex after all. D-Rex walks, chomps, charges, bares his teeth and roars. If you like it can even be programmed to stand guard inside your room and growl at intruders. Great Christmas item.

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Kota is a robot replica of a 40-inch baby triceratops from Playskool. It walks, growls, and the kids can ride it. That’s pretty freakin awesome if you’re a kid. Where’s our dino-bots that we can ride through traffic? One day. By god, one day I will ride a dinosaur and rule all of your asses. Until then, you can buy Kota from Amazon for $300.

[Amazon]

Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, aeronautical engineer Rick Lind of the University of Florida, and their students Andy Gedeon and Brian Roberts are looking back in time to create the future. A robotic spy plane with next-generation capabilities that’s based on the Pterodactyl.

Mimicking the physical and biological characteristics of the Early Cretaceous Brazilian pterosaur Tapejara wellnhoferi — skin, blood vessels, muscles, tendons, nerves, cranial plate, skeletal structure, and more — the scientists are working to develop a Pterodrone — an unmanned aerial vehicle that not only flies but also walks and sails just like the original.

[Scientificblogging]