AIBO ERS-100
The Sony AIBO Entertainment Robot, model ERS-100, is a robotic dog first produced by Japanese electronics company Sony
The First Sony Dog
History And Facts About The AIBO ROBOT!
The Sony AIBO Entertainment Robot, model ERS-100, is a robotic dog first produced by Japanese electronics company Sony for home entertainment in 1999. With its silver plastic body, exposed, articulated joints, and screen-like face, it suggests a cyborg beagle. It was engineered by Toshitada Doi to interact with people and its environment using sensors that detect touch and sound. Adaptive learning functionalities allow the AIBO to develop a personality and new behaviors over time. Green and red LEDs shows it’s expression of happiness and displeasure, and a small speaker emits melodious beeping noises as the dog navigates a feeling or taste, including responding to things that they tell him and playing fetch with a pink ball. The AIBO was designed by artist Sorayama Hajime, who is best known for his airbrushed illustrations of humanoid robots. The name ‘AIBO’ is a composite of the English term ‘artificial intelligence robot’ and aibou, a Japanese word for ‘friend’. The AIBO had very successful commercial, and Sony produced twelve models between 1999 and 2006. The success of the AIBO prompted the development and release of robotics toys by other companies, and it represents the growing of these robots of technology into daily life at the end of the twentieth century.
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