Aibo, the cute-looking robot puppy developed by Sony, was designed to be a household companion. The robot can already emulate many of the movements and behaviors of real dogs, such as walking on ...

Sony had announced that after more than a decade since retiring its robot dog product, the Aibo will be coming back for real. The new Aibo has also learnt some new tricks. Its AI capability will ...

In the 16 years since Sony introduced AIBO, the first robotic pet, consumer robotics has not exactly flowered. AIBO was a smooth-moving, shockingly intelligent and incredibly expensive product.

Amazon has an expensive robot, Astro, that no one, at least that I know, owns. Sony's AIBO robot dog lived, died, and was revived, but has never sold in big numbers. Apple's apparent plans ...

All of the robotic pets like Sony’s AIBO are interesting toys, but they aren’t intended to do the work that Spot and other robo-dogs are intended to do. Indeed, Boston Dynamics’ launch video ...

Moon, Youngme E. "Sony AIBO: The World's First Entertainment Robot (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 503-095, April 2003. (Revised November 2005.) ...

On the altar at Kofukuji Temple in Isumi City, Chiba Prefecture, were 62 AIBO robot dogs. The head priest chanted sutras and grieving owners in black offered prayers for their "dead" pets.

The prototypes were developed by the same team that created the Aibo dog robot. “Aibo and self-driving vehicles are the same from the standpoint of making decisions about how to move around ...

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Sony have used reinforcement learning (RL) to teach Sony's robot dog Aibo to walk more quietly. Many users of ...

AIBO, the adorable Sony robot dog, was discontinued in 2006. But they inspired enough love in their owners to try and have them repaired, and when they could not be, to hold funerals for them.