Some early reports had suggested that news of the technology was in fact an April Fool's joke - but while some reports on 1 April were embellished, there was truth behind the rumours.
Dava Newman of the Man Vehicle Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) told BBC News that reports indicate that the Pingvin is uncomfortable.
But nothing is official until Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ), the world's largest technology company, reports fiscal first-quarter results late Tuesday.