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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.
Is an Aibo humping someone's leg.
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast.
Dear Bill:
I think Sony has a great idea here. Why don't we open the source for Clippy?
Your friend,
Steve
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...
It was amusing to see some of the new behaviors programmed by students in an effort to make the Aibos play better soccer. While the Aibo plays lousy soccer (due to extremely limited memory and a design focus on "cuteness" instead of efficiency), they are absolutely fun to watch.
-- http://www.MarkWelch.com/ Pleasanton California
Now someone can make it say "... For me to Poop On!" after everything it does.
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One of my favorite pictures that I've seen in recent memory was from this past January's National Geographic, in an article about the evolution of dogs from wolves: a wolf, a dog, and an Aibo hanging out. From the page:
Facing the Future
Even with its battery removed, an Aibo robot got the full attention of Koda the wolf and Simon the Maltese during a studio shoot. Koda, a trained captive-born wolf, had worked with Simon but not with the robot. At first he moved away from the motionless Aibo, says photographer Robert Clark. Then, curious, he sniffed it and chewed off a plastic ear. Doug Seus, Koda's owner and trainer, says that while dogs can easily form new relationships after they are about six months old, wolves are genetically programmed not to accept strangers. "It's a built-in survival technique to limit the size of the pack." Confronted with the unknown, wolves are either extremely timid or extremely aggressive, he says. "They may look like a big dog, but they are psychologically different."
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
It's C++ now, but I am sure they will adapt other languages soon...
//S/#?$$/../!{*&?[->]};
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:
The government's moral compass is controlled by GPS.
In times of crises, they alter it to suit their needs.
Anyone interested in an Open Robotics system PLEASE ignore this SONY-BS and have a look at this: Open PINO platform