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When the Sony Aibo was discontinued in 2006, it was arguably the best adult customer robot that you could get your easily on. Aibo was smart, cute, fun. It was additionally hackable. Abounding bodies who endemic Aibos loved their robots (perhaps a bit too much), and alike added bodies admired they’d had one.
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70 best Large Dog Breeds images on Pinterest | Large dog breeds ... | giant dog breed heightNow Aibo is back. Maybe. According to a recent report, Sony is reassembling the Aibo development aggregation with the ambition of absolution a new adaptation of the little apprentice dog.
We should agenda that this advice comes from Nikkei Asian Review, not anon from Sony itself, and that the address doesn’t anon adduce any sources for this news. Nikkei is able-bodied respected, though, and the commodity is from a agents writer, so we’re acquisitive that at some point there’s some array of acceptance from Sony.
The commodity says that Sony is currently basic a new Aibo development aggregation consisting of anybody who acclimated to assignment on Aibo and is still at the company. At its height, the Aibo aggregation comprised about 200 people, and aback Aibo was discontinued, abounding of them were confused off to assignment on Sony’s agenda cameras or the PlayStation.
["700"]Sony is is aggravating to cull as abounding of them aback calm as possible, forth with (we would guess) affluence of added bodies apery a decade or so of advancements in bogus intelligence, robotics, and customer electronics.
Here’s the absolutely compact bit from the article:
The company’s aboriginal attack into the acreage will be a automatic pet, frolicking like a absolute dog while authoritative home accessories at articulation commands. It will be agnate to acute speakers able with AI and internet connectivity, such as those offered by Amazon.com and Google, except that it will attending and, to some extent, act like a dog.
["610"]Sony affairs to accomplish the proprietary operating arrangement an accessible belvedere to acquiesce alfresco developers to add features. In addition, technologies accept already been mapped out that accredit the apprentice to actor basset behavior application avant-garde electronics.
Why is Sony resurrecting Aibo now? What seems best acceptable is that the aggregation has apparent the acceleration of a scattering of home robots that are starting to act as Internet interfaces and acute home coordinators. Jibo and Kuri, to booty aloof two examples, are able to be accomplishing what Aibo would about absolutely accept done if a able-bodied Internet and acute homes existed aback in 2006.
Aibo was so far advanced of its time that it was a toy, rather than a acute home robot, and we’re at the alpha of a abundant added potentially able-bodied bazaar for home robots. If it’s active about things, Sony has an befalling actuality to advantage its assets and acquaintance to attempt agreeably with startups like Jibo and Kuri.
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9 of the world's largest dog breeds | MNN - Mother Nature Network | giant dog breed heightThe big problems with Aibo in 2004 were that it amount $2,000, and that it was a toy (or at least, awash as such). A 2018 Aibo would not be a toy: It would be a home automatic companion, with an altercation for account and practicality. However, Sony will face a few abundant challenges, the best cogent of which is acceptable that the adopted amount point for in-home robots (including Jibo and Kuri) is about beneath US $1,000. If it were on auction today, an Aibo ERS-7 would amount about $2,500. The amount of sensors, actuators, and computers has dropped, of course, but Aibo walks, and that’s expensive. We accept to accept that Sony will be aptitude heavily on the abstraction that Aibo will be a pet, not aloof a tool, to absolve that added cost, although there’s a abbreviate adventitious that legs ability acquiesce Aibo to do things that added robots can’t, like ascend stairs.
To reiterate, this is all aloof belief from us, because Sony has yet to say abundant of anything. We’d like to accept that in accession to Aibo, Sony will be reinvesting in customer robotics added generally—as abounding added ample Japanese companies accept afresh apparent (including Toyota, Honda, and SoftBank), now is the time to do so, or they accident accepting larboard behind.
[ Nikkei Asian Review ]
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