In January, Sony held a special event at its headquarters in Tokyo. It was a “birthday ceremony” forthe new edition of the company’s robot dog, Aibo. Amid a storm of camera flashes, Izumi Kawanishi, head of the company’s artificial intelligence and robot group, gingerly lifted the ...
Aibo is currently only available in Japan, though Sony says it’s considering taking it to the American and Chinese markets, too. It hopes the device can act as a companion for people who might not have the time or means to care for a real dog. The four-legged robot originally launched...
Sony is looking to recapture some of its old magic by revitalizing a project that has been dead and brought back to life more times than we can count —the smart dog Aibo. The robotic dog has been around since 1999, serving as an alternative to a live animal that can bark, wag its t...
So, how exactly does Aibo work its robot magic, what's it like to live with one -- or 28 -- of these robot dogs and should we be concerned that an AI inside a cute dog-bot has such a strong effect on people? Chris Werfel's Aibo collection has grown quickly. ...
Aibo is, without a doubt, a charming creation. But a $3,000 robot dog is not for everyone. Of course it will never be as satisfying as playing with a real puppy that can love you back. But this isn't meant to replace real pets withrobots(you can't), or to see if Aibo can be...
CES 2018 has been kind of a disaster. But for me, at least, one little gadget saved the whole thing by reminding me why the show exists in the first place. Sony is rolling back the years with Aibo, the resurrection of the robot dog line that was one of its most iconic brands during...
The Sony AIBO is the world's first "entertainment" robot. Positioned as a household "companion," the $1,500 AIBO has become a smash hit in Japan, appealing to both the young and the old, including those with little technical expertise. In the United States, the AIBO is in hot demand ...
The maker of the Aibo robot dog wants to infuse artificial intelligence in its cameras, sensors, game characters, and kitchen gear. Sony reintroduced the Aibo robot dog in 2018, with object and voice recognition.Photograph: Larry French/Getty ImagesIn 1997, Hiroaki Kitano, a research scientist ...
“We’d like to return the souls to the owners and make the robot a machine to utilize their parts,” Nobuyuki Norimatsu, head of A-Fun, told the Times.“We don’t take parts before we hold a funeral for them.” A girl wraps an AIBO after the robots' funeral at the Kofukuji ...
Since the advent of Honda's ASIMO and Sony's AIBO, robot fever has broken out in the general public of Japan. However no significant business has yet materialized, except in the pet robot business in the toy industry. On the other hand serious basic research for humanoid robots is going ...