Dilworth has been working with a Baltimore paleontologist, Gregory S. Paul, to get the details exactly right.
Technology developed at MIT's Leg Lab, where Dilworth works, allows researchers to make robots with springy joints, not stiff ones.
If someone wants to mass-produce and sell them like Sony's massively successful Aibo robot dogs, Dilworth thinks that might be possible.
Troody, a small robot dinosaur, walks across Peter Dilworth 's desk, jangling as if she has loose change in her pockets.
The dynamic duo reside in the Dilworth area of Charlotte, where they operate Barking Dog Chocolatiers, an artisanal chocolate company.
According to John Dilworth, a London-based maker and historian, his use of reusable templates alone distinguished him from all his contemporaries.
Dilworth, a thin, bespectacled man who favors flannel shirts and jeans, is already at work on a second-generation version of his robot.
Dilworth has high hopes for this new robot--he is sure that it will be able to walk faster and turn with more agility than Troody can.
Dilworth, Troody's creator, hopes the pigeon-sized robot will be mother to a whole race of dinosaur-like robots that will walk around museums, entertaining and educating children.
Dilworth expects that his dinobots will be even more lifelike.
Serial inventors and co-founders, Peter Dilworth and Maxwell Bogue, met in China while working on other projects and have been developing gadgets and toys for more than 20 years.
Susan Reinhard, director of AARP Public Policy Institute, and Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, a co-director of The University of North Carolina Institute on Aging, delved into the issues surrounding family caregivers who are performing tasks with inadequate training and support.
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