for the record, I would like to see some kind of original design. A weird but cute alien pet or maybe a dragon. I would love for the next lifeform to be able to move a little faster and be able to right itself if it falls over. I would like to keep with the camera based vision as with Pleo, but it needs to be taken advantage of. To date, Pleo hast no object, facial, or color recognition despite the fact that it (somehow) has camera-based vision. The next lifeform should be able to recognize its toy and seek it out for play. It would be really cool if it could recognize its owner and become excited to see them. I would also like to see improved processing speed since I feel Pleo reacts too slowly to certain things such as being picked up. And of course, navigation and self charging are high on the wish list.

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