Hasbro's MY REAL BABY Makes Her Debut At Toy Fair; First Born of Exclusive Alliance with iRobot Corporation is the Most Technologically Advanced Baby Doll.Business Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com PAWTUCKET, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2000 She cries and coos, instantly responds and reacts, smiles and squeals with delight. She's MY REAL BABY(TM), the most technologically advanced baby doll and the &uot;first born&uot; of the exclusive alliance between iRobot Corporation, also known as IS Robotics, Inc., of Somerville, Mass., and Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HAS). Featuring Natural Response Technology(TM), MY REAL BABY is the first interactive, animated doll that responds to a child's actions with realistic emotion-like responses. To date, she is the most real, dynamic baby doll available for young girls to take care of and nurture -- no other doll features more sophisticated, life-like technology. &uot;MY REAL BABY is a breakthrough product in the girls category because it provides a truly unique and meaningful play experience,&uot; said Alan G. Hassenfeld, Hasbro's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. &uot;MY REAL BABY showcases Hasbro's commitment - and ability - to continually strengthen our standing as a family entertainment company that offers technologically advanced products.&uot; Hasbro and iRobot developed MY REAL BABY to provide young girls with a highly interactive, stimulating play experience. Through animatronics an·i·ma·tron·ics n. (used with a sing. verb) The technology employing electronics to animate motorized puppets. [anima(tion) + (elec)tronics. and Natural Response Technology, a process that iRobot has been developing over the past six years, MY REAL BABY reacts instantly to the attention of a child, showcases a full range of expressions and sounds, and appears to &uot;grow&uot; over time through speech development and a full menu of unpredictable reactions. &uot;We've taken technology previously available only in animatronics that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and combined it with unique sensors and artificial intelligence to create a spectacularly cool toy,&uot; said Colin Angle Colin Angle is co-founder and chief executive officer of iRobot Corporation, maker of the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner. External links
Life-like reactions and expressions, and the ability to interact with the child is a key difference between MY REAL BABY and other dolls. &uot;Girls have played with dolls for generations. What's so exciting is the increasing ability to use breakthrough technology to refresh, enhance and enrich those classic play patterns,&uot; noted child psychologist child psychologist Psychology A mental health professional with a PhD in psychology who administer tests, evaluates and treats children's emotional disorders, but can't prescribe medications , Gar Roper, Ph.D., who has conducted child focus groups with MY REAL BABY. &uot;Hasbro has achieved this with the introduction of MY REAL BABY, a doll that actually fosters a preschooler's wish to play at nurturing and caring, and provides the child with an appealing, unique experience.&uot; When a child first picks up MY REAL BABY, the doll's eyes doll's eyes see actaeaspicata. open and she smiles and coos. As the child plays with MY REAL BABY, her reactions and expressions become increasingly active, including: -- Her face changes from a smile to a frown and back again -- She giggles and laughs when you tickle her feet or bounce her on your knee -- She will tell you when she needs to be burped, changed or fed -- She begins speaking simple baby words like &uot;mama&uot; and &uot;yum-yum&uot; and advances to short sentences like &uot;I Love you, Mama&uot; and &uot;I want baba ba·ba n. A leavened rum cake, usually made with raisins. [French, from Polish, old woman.] Noun 1. , Mama&uot; -- A child can rock her to sleep and, when she is ready to take a nap, she will say &uot;night, night&uot; In addition to responding to a child's actions, MY REAL BABY will seem to become more independent by initiating her own preferences, actions and behaviors. This element of unpredictability promises a dynamic, interactive play experience full of surprises. By interacting with MY REAL BABY, girls can emulate their mothers through role-playing, which in turn develops confidence and independence. MY REAL BABY is the first product from Hasbro's exclusive alliance with iRobot. The two companies began working together in late 1998 to develop highly intelligent, interactive toys. MY REAL BABY will include a birth certificate, rattle, pacifier, bottle and &uot;baby care&uot; manual. MY REAL BABY will be in stores in fall 2000 and will retail for approximately $95.99. Hasbro is a worldwide leader in children's and family leisure time entertainment products and services, including the design, manufacture and marketing of games and toys ranging from traditional to high-tech. Both internationally and in the U.S., its PLAYSKOOL, KENNER, TONKA, ODDZON, SUPER SOAKER Super Soaker is a brand of recreational water gun, first sold in 1989. The first Super Soakers utilized pressurized air to shoot water with greater power, range, and accuracy than conventional squirt guns. , MILTON BRADLEY  This article or section is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article or section in an . , PARKER BROTHERS Parker Brothers is a toy and game manufacturer and brand. For almost 115 years the company published more than 1800 games;[1] among their best known products are Monopoly, Cluedo (known as Clue in North America), Risk , TIGER, HASBRO INTERACTIVE Hasbro Interactive was a video game production and publishing subsidiary of Hasbro, the large game and toy company. Hasbro Interactive was formed late in 1995 in order to compete in the computer and video game arena. , MICROPROSE, GALOOB and WIZARDS OF THE COAST Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes. Originally a basement-run role-playing game publisher, they popularized the collectible card game genre with in brands and products provide the highest quality and most recognizable play experiences in the world. The iRobot Corporation was founded as IS Robotics in 1990 by professor Rodney Brooks Rodney Allen Brooks (b. December 30, 1954 in Adelaide, Australia) is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief Technical Officer and sits on the Board of iRobot Corp. , director of the MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Lab Artificial Intelligence Lab - MIT AI Lab , and other leaders in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics. iRobot has developed unique technology that enables the construction of low cost, intelligent machines. While this technology may be used one day to build androids, the company has a heavy focus on markets where the technology can help people today. Named by Fortune magazine as one of the Top 20 coolest companies, its creations have graced the covers of Scientific American, National Geographic, and Popular Science and can be frequently seen on the Discovery Channel. (c) 2000 Hasbro, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 
Why do you have no pictures of this doll or say that in the last review I read about it it makes sounds like a machine and you can tell it is not a real baby? MAKE IT MORE LIFE LIKE walking, eating, things like that! Don't make it look like a doll make it different skin tones, eye colors, hair colors! |
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