Nuggets: Fetch ! Sony's New Robotic Pooch
News Sony's tribute to Barbara Woodhouse It doesn't need feeding, crap on your carpet, chase your cat or bite your neighbour. No, not your flat mate but AIBO -- Sony's brand new robotic dog. A more sophisticated relative of Doctor Who's trusty companion...
[May 13, 1999, 13:03]
Drop Yer Pet A Line On The Ol' Dog 'n' Bone
News According to a number of reports in today's daily newspapers, Japanese scientists are ready to unleash tiny "pet mobiles" that slip under your pampered pooch or pussy's collar, allowing you to dial up your loved ones for a quick: "Who's a good boy...
[October 28, 1999, 9:28]
Mechanised Mutt Designed To Delight The Ladies
News Dog.com may sound like a Web site but is in fact a life sized replica of a pooch, albeit equipped with seven sensors designed to respond to the affections of its organic master. Toy company Tomy unveiled the latest sensation in robotic creatures...
[September 5, 2000, 9:43]
UK Scientists To Unleash Aibo-killer
News The dog, RS-01 RoboDog, measures 82cm by 67cm by 37cm, making it more than twice the size of Sony's Aibo, and more of an automated attack dog than robot pooch. A UK robotics startup hopes to start a scrap with Japanese electronics manufacturers by...
[March 14, 2001, 10:42]
Can A Human Love A Robot?
News Sony's AIBO robot pooch, developed in 1999, proved that robots can learn how to interact with humans using limited intelligence and play a part in their daily lives, albeit at a rudimentary level. Sociable humanoid robots could soon be intelligent...
[January 23, 2001, 14:01]
Toy Robots Do Your Bidding
News The pooch -- priced at $69.95 and available this fall -- walks backward and forward and left and right. A casual bystander could easily mistake this year's International Toy Fair in New York for an episode of "The Jetsons".
[February 15, 2000, 9:18]
Sony's Robot Dog Learns A New Trick
News Sony will also launch a new cobalt-coloured version of the pooch, Aibo Cyber-Blue, priced at $1,300. Electronics giant Sony announced new software on Monday that will allow Aibo owners to control the robot dog via email commands.
[May 20, 2003, 11:48]
2001: Great Gadgets
News If Sony can keep adding to the functionality of the AIBO range, while dropping the price, then before long every other Christmas stocking will play home to an automated pooch. Radical. That was the consensus when Nokia unleashed its latest handset...
[December 27, 2001, 6:31]
Sony's Robot Dog Learns To Talk
News Researchers at Sony's Computer Science Laboratory in France have succeeded in creating a version of the company's robot dog AIBO capable of speaking. The mechanised hound has been trained by Frederic Kaplan, an artificial intelligence expert at...
[September 28, 2000, 15:41]
Sega Creates New Breed Of Robotic Dog
News Japanese electronics giant Sega has launched a direct challenge to Sony's position as the premier supplier of robotic dogs to with the creation of its own brand of computerised canine. The quaintly named Poo-Chi robot from Sega will scrap it out...
[January 19, 2000, 15:01]
