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Teach An Old Aibo New Tricks
dipfan writes "After expending much energy trying to stop hackers from tinkering with its Aibo robot dog, Sony has finally realised it's not worth the effort and has decided to start giving away a 'non-commercial' developers kit. The kit is called OPEN-R SDK, which allows Aibo be programmed in C++, as part of Sony's efforts to promote its (so-called) OPEN-R architecture for robotic entertainment. Anyway, the really neat thing is that you can reprogram your Aibo to meow."
... can I reprogram it to clean my dorm room? Obviously my roomate never will... but maybe something more intelligent like a robot dog could manage it...
The Internet, one place where if you're not right, someone else will set you straight... maybe.
You raise a good point. Can you teach an Aibo to moof, like a dogcow?
Is an Aibo humping someone's leg.
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast.
Expect a new TV show about Battle-Aibots...
Must be fun to watch them doing tricks..
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Dear Bill:
I think Sony has a great idea here. Why don't we open the source for Clippy?
Your friend,
Steve
...nope, Lego didn't purchase Sony. (Hey, there's a cool hack. Program the Aibo to in turn program a Mindstorm set to build a doghouse out of itself.) Thank you, Sony. We appreciate it.
- If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat? - Steven Wright
If I wanted to hear something meow, I'd have somebody call my cell phone.
Assimilated Press (2002) - ROBOT OWNERS beware. Hackers recently started infiltrating Sony's Aibo robot dogs and have reprogrammed them to be fight dogs. In the latest incident, a 14 year old child was attacked and mangled by his pet robot.
Yoshi Yanamura, speaking on conditions of anynomity said "this is the reason we didn't want anyone reprogramming the robots. This was totally expected. Good thing we didn't include the 10 MegaJule laser add-on, then we would really have problems".
Sony Corporation says the best way to protect yourself is to not recharge the robots after you have been attacked.
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If I only had a brain...
Now someone can make it say "... For me to Poop On!" after everything it does.
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I saw the "Open-R archicture" and thought for a moment they were going for a play on Scooby Doo's voice. Heh.
Say hello to zMac.
..you can't teach an old dog new tricks ;)
It was interesting to hear some of the comments about the Aibo from ppl close to Sony at last years GDCE. Masaya Matsuura mentioned that some of the people around the design department got extremely upset with some of the things that the Aibo was made to do.
"In Matsuura's office they had an Aibo for the employees to care for and play with. The Aibo is attracted to the color pink--he has a pink ball that he will walk up to and kick or butt with his head. To test the programming of Aibo, one of Matsuura's programmers tied a pink ball to a wire, attached to Aibo, dangling in front of his face. Of course, Aibo kept on walking forward, never stopping. A female employee was upset at this "torturing" of Aibo and sent a memo to Matsuura, causing an investigation as to why the robot dog was tortured and if others were upset by this."
It's C++ now, but I am sure they will adapt other languages soon...
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VisualBasic: Look how easy, I just drag the 'Bone' object over the 'Mouth' Object! Unfortunately, with the run-time, I can't fit any other code in there.
C#: It will go get the paper, but only if you first verify the subscription status.
Perl: Look, I can make it jump, bark, and fetch with this one line:
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In times of crises, they alter it to suit their needs.
Call it a pack. Wulf, dog. get it?
Look its running Linux. Its running. ha ha
*expects to be modded down to -5 troll*
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Call me when they come up with robotic domo-kuns that I can get to chase my kitty around.
Alternative way to make your Aibo meow is to toss it in the freezer for a while and then run it through the circle saw....MEEEEOOWWWWWWWwwww
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