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The AIBO ERS-7 resembles a small dog
The AIBO ERS-7 resembles a small dog

AIBO (Artificial Intelligence roBOt, homonymous with "companion" in Japanese) was one of several types of robotic pets designed and manufactured by Sony; there have been several different models since their introduction in 1999. A robot is a mechanical or Virtual Artificial agent In practice it is usually an electro-mechanical system which by its appearance or movements A pet is an Animal kept for companionship and enjoyment or a househeld animal as opposed to Livestock, Laboratory animals Working animals is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest Media conglomerates with Able to walk, "see" its environment via camera, and recognize spoken commands, they are considered to be autonomous robots, since they are able to learn and mature based on external stimuli from their owner or environment, or from other AIBOs. Autonomous robots are Robots which can perform desired tasks in unstructured environments without continuous human guidance Artist Hajime Sorayama created the initial designs for the AIBO. Hajime Sorayama (空山基 Sorayama Hajime, 1947 &mdash is a Japanese illustrator

On January 26, 2006 Sony announced that it would discontinue AIBO and several other products as of March, 2006. Events 1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It will also stop development of the QRIO robot. QRIO (" Q uest for cu' RIO' sity" originally named Sony AIBO will still be supported until 2013 (ERS7 model), however, and AIBO technology will continue to be developed for use in other consumer products. [1] [2] AIBOware (the name is a trademark of Sony corporation), is the title given to the software the AIBO runs on its pink Memory Stick. Memory Stick is a removable flash Memory card format launched by Sony in October 1998, and is also used in general to describe the whole family The Life AIBOware allows the robot to be raised from pup to fully grown adult while going through various stages of development as its owner interacts with it. The Explorer AIBOware allows the owner to interact with a fully mature robot able to understand (though not necessarily willing to obey) 100 voice commands. Without the AIBOware, the AIBO will run in what is called "clinic mode" and can only perform basic actions.

Many AIBO owners enjoy teaching their pets new behaviors by reprogramming them (in Sony's special 'R-CODE' language). However, in October 2001, Sony sent a cease-and-desist notice to the webmaster of aibopet.com/aibohack.com, demanding that he stop distributing code that was retrieved by bypassing the copy prevention mechanisms of the robot. Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy prevention, or copy restriction, is a technology for preventing the unauthorised reproduction Eventually, in the face of many outraged AIBO owners, see the protest letter, Sony released a programmer's kit for 'non-commercial' use. The kit has now been expanded into three distinct tools: R-CODE, AIBO Remote Framework, and the OPEN-R SDK. These three tools are combined under the name AIBO SDE (Software Development Environment). All of these tools are free to download and can be used for commercial or non-commercial use (Except for the OPEN-R SDK, which is specifically for non-commercial use). Since the first release of OPEN-R, several AIBO programming tools have been developed by university labs, including URBI, Tekkotsu, Pyro and Cognitive Vision.

AIBO playing with kids
AIBO playing with kids

The AIBO has seen use as an inexpensive platform for artificial intelligence research, because it integrates a computer, vision system, and articulators in a package vastly cheaper than conventional research robots. The RoboCup autonomous soccer competition had a "RoboCup Four-Legged Robot Soccer League" in which numerous institutions from around the world would participate. RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1993 Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Competitors would program a team of AIBO robots to play games of autonomous robot soccer against other competing teams. Computer programs (also software programs, or just programs) are instructions for a Computer.

AIBO's complete vision system uses the SIFT algorithm, to recognise its charging station. Scale-invariant feature transform (or SIFT) is an algorithm in Computer vision to detect and describe local features in images The newest versions are equipped with a Wi-Fi connection, allowing them to send the pictures they take via email. Wi-Fi (ˈwaɪfaɪ is the trade name for the popular wireless technology used As a result, the Roblog originated. Roblog is a Neologism for a Blog written by a Robot with no human intervention

AIBO's sounds were programmed by Japanese DJ/avant-garde composer Nobukazu Takemura, considered by many to be highly skilled at fusing mechanic and organic concepts, and the bodies of the "3x" series (Latte and Macaron, the round-headed AIBOs released in 2001) were designed by visual artist Katsura Moshino. Nobukazu Takemura (竹村延和 Takemura Nobukazu) is a Japanese musician whose style has run from Jazz to house to Drum and bass to Chamber

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Breed lineage

After model name: body color choices; release date; units sold.

First generation models

AIBO models ERS-111 (right) and ERS-210 (left)
AIBO models ERS-111 (right) and ERS-210 (left)

Second generation models

Estimated sales for all second generation models: 60,000

Third Generation models

Estimated sales for all third generation models: 40,000 to 50,000

See also

External links

Press Releases by Sony

RoboSoccer

General Programming

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