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Teach An Old Aibo New Tricks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sit-up-and-beg-for-batteries dept.

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."

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  1. Yeah but... by Wonko+the+Sane+42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... 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...

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  2. What I want to see... by owlmeat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is an Aibo humping someone's leg.

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  3. Teaching characters new tricks by Devlin-du-GEnie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Bill:

    I think Sony has a great idea here. Why don't we open the source for Clippy?

    Your friend,

    Steve

  4. I can just see the headlines... by thrillbert · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  5. sweet.... by austad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now someone can make it say "... For me to Poop On!" after everything it does.

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  6. What about other languages? by plexxer · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's C++ now, but I am sure they will adapt other languages soon...

    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: //S/#?$$/../!{*&?[->]};

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