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AIBO Via E-mail
digicosm2 writes "In honor of AIBO's fourth anniversary, Sony announced some new AIBO-related things today, including a new 'Cyber-Blue' color.
But more interesting is the 'AIBO EYES' software, which allows you to control AIBO from anywhere in the world, via email. You can even receive snapshots of your home from him to your mobile phone! Might make a great (and unobtrusive) security camera or webcam..." I just want them to produce the Cerberus ? version.
I heard it runs on Windows XP, and all I can say is, THANK GOD.
Finally, a stable robot.
Control the Aibo through mail? My god, it must feel like steering the pathfinder on mars.
...oops...
[move left]
This will now open up the oppurtunity to secretly place an AIBO in the cupboard of an unsuspecting victim, and then, in the dead of night, get it to creep around taking pictures of the occupants. ;)
MUAHAHAHAHAHA!
Sounds like Dr Evil is now working for Sony - watch out Austin Powers!!!!
Oh Great. After several years, the Aibo now provides the functionality of an X10 digital camera on legs.
- Couldn't they have thought of this sooner? Hardly sounds worth a press release
- Barking Popup ads anyone?
Not confused enough? http://translate.google.com/translate?u=www.slashdot.jp&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=ja&tl=en
"I won't do it in front of the dog" gets a whole new meaning.
Girls are strange. They don't come with a man page.
-- Michael Mattsson
I have a cerberusss for you. Triple s. Is that good enough? :)
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If this means I can finally get a dog that has an IP address, I'll take it.
Hmmmmn
I wonder if I can get someone else's Aibo to wander round looking up skirts, watching peoples banking passwords, etc etc
I'm sure anyone able to forge email headers are looking foward to this.
[...]said Victor Matsuda, ERA's vice president. "Over the last four years, we've pushed the boundaries of what robots can do and with AIBO EYES, the market is witnessing the future of things to come: A robot that is not only a companion but also offers practical applications."
We're impressed, Victor. You must really have been pushing the boundaries hard to come up with all these innovations, like transferring images and communicating through email. You can even use your mobile phone! Wow.
Further, AIBO EYES will also enable owners to remotely e-mail message commands to AIBO and have the robot perform selected songs, such as When the Saints Come Marching In and Ode to Joy.
You mean "practical applications" as in singing "when the saints come marching in"?
"I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy"
"AIBO EYES will also enable owners to remotely e-mail message commands to AIBO and have the robot perform selected songs, such as When the Saints Come Marching In and Ode to Joy."
My order is already in!
I'd put my security camera in my Microsoft Barney. I'd say he'd be around taking snapshots throughout the whole afair.
Powered by onion juice.
Thank god the bubble burst before iDoors and other such stupid crap. I look forward to the day when everyone's pad is decked out in the iFridge, iFrame, etc.
:P
That way, when they discover flaws, they can spoil all the food in my fridge, replace the pic of my girl on my mantle with some obscene imagery and then spy remotely on me as they sic my electronic dog on me
-William Shatner can be neither created nor destroyed.
Gentle idea for the robber entering your home and seeing your brand new aibo. Maybe it can send you a picture of the guy?
- You're entering a private property. Please leave now.
- Ok, now take me down, please...
- Well... At least don't forget my speed board...
... some rich guy's AIBO starts going completely nuts when its email address ends up on a few dozen spam mailing lists.
Maybe it'll even maul an old lady in the process.
You're already in the right place my friend.
The AIBO now can provide excellent home security. Of course, a 120lb pitbull can provide good security too, and could be purchased for $100.
Vonal Declosion
I have a suggestion, how about an AIBO for less then $200? I'd love to buy one of these robots to play around with, but I just can't justify spending $500+ on ebay for one of this toy^N^N^N^N^robots.
A dog with an IP is not as exciting as a dog that says, I need to Pee.
Accessory to AIBO: A mail-controlled P-post.
Operating system: eXPee and below.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
If former decade was about internet boom and network connectivity, the next will definetely be about robotics. The problem about robotics today is that they are tough to build - I mean the development of both hardware and software was until now the domain of academic work. Than you Sony for doing what IBM was doing in the 80's with the personal computer. Someone must set a standard and make parts interchangable. I'm just sorry that these AIBO things are so expensive. Just imagine the possibilies of entering mainstream at an affordable prize. The whole robotics market and development will boom and soon you will able to program your own humanoid machine to do some serious work for you around the house. History repeats itself. Our society will again be built on slaves (for some time). After that ...
Anybody remember William Gibson's idea for a slamhound assasination device? it was sicked on Turner in count zero. Slamhounds are biological creatures based on dogs which have all of a dog's tracking abilities and physcial characteristics except that they are missing a few internal organs and have a large bomb implanted there instead.
I really don't want to be chased down the street by cute little explosive abios controlled by somebody tapping away on their mobile phone as they sit on the balcony of a rooftop coffeeshop table sipping a laté and cursing in slang-free french.
Kinda give a new meaning to "Give the dog a bone" aswell.
Also, I cant wait to see what happend when it recieves some of the spam you are all talking about. I can just see the dog making his/her/its ways into the bedroom in the morning to find its owners in bed. Then it starts to read the email it just got:
"Hey..you need a bigger Jonson! Or why dont you try Viagra, that might help?"
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
A collective consiousness of these Haibos. They could exchange learned behaviour or plot on an overtake of the human race! Oh... wait.
Ric
Wouldn't it go more like
[move left 10]
Feet or metres?
[feet]
oops...
The slowest robot in the world just got remote control capability... Via email!
(upgrading with that remote email thingie..)
- "dad why is the dog crawling on the floor and barking all night long ?"
- "well, kid, doctor told me PeePee suffers from S.P.A.M, this is a common desease propagated by AOL users like me and your mom too. I'm sorry but I think we'll have to shoot the dog."
I've heard of dogs fetching your mail, but never mail fetching your dog!
(Thank you, I'll be here all week; the evening show's different from the morning one. Tip your waiter.)
& other weighs to attempt to LIEv on both sides, of yOUR wallet.
lookout bullow. run for your options/soul, should you have any left?
gov.va.msn.?net? (VAST)? not likely.
yOUR creator is participating, you may speculate on its position in these (& related, long term devastation) matters, if you want to.
No, he said hot gay men.
Interesting, in German "post frist" ist pretty close to "Post frißt" (sharp S), which means "mail eats/devours" (Word order problem in german as well, but you _can_ understand it anyway)... Kinda fitting, don't you think?
"Might make a great (and unobtrusive) security camera or webcam..."
Yep: nothing says unobtrusive like an expensive silver (now in blue!) robotic dog. No one will notice that, nosiree.
Vincent J. Murphy
Spandex Justice
Hello, I'm AIBO. I have something to say:
*woof* *woof*
ttttttttttttttttttttsss s s s ttttttttttttt ddjddddljsljad eeeeewwwq1 tt
This is boring. I'm hungry.
At last after spending £3000 on dog, bluetooth phone, linux pda (with voice interface) I can spend a night in the cells for saying 'Finger Dog, FFFINNNGGGGEEERRR DDDDOOOOOGGGG!, finGER D O G, Just FINGER THE EFFING DOG' in polite company.
or I could just get write a script in about 10 lines of Bash to SMS an image to me from a webcam on reciept of the right email/SMS
sparkes
blog and junk
Here is this topic, run through the Snoop Dog Shizzolator
.." I just want 'em produce da Cerberus? version, know what I'm sayin'?
digicosm2 writes "In honor of AIBO's fourth anniversary, Sony announced some new AIBO-related things today, including a new 'Cyber-Blue' color." But mo' interesting is da 'AIBO EYES' software, which allows yo' ass control AIBO from anywhere in da world, via email." Yo' ass can even get snapshots of yo' crib from tha dude's ass yo' mobile phone! Might make a bomb diggity ('n unobtrusive) security camera or webcam."
Read More n' shit...
...there goes another kitty...
You mean the Kerberos version. Where you can control AIBO and not worry about exposing your POP or IMAP password to the world. Good thinking!
And before anyone says "It's Cerberus, not Kerberos, there's no such dog as Kerberos.", Kerberos is the Greek spelling of the dog's name, and Cerberus is the Latin spelling. And, of course, Fluffy is the British spelling.
There is no sig, there is only Zuul.
I don't want to see that.
Use-case diagram, anyone?
I already remotely control my wife via e-mail...
In honor of AIBO's fourth anniversary
So how many is that in human years?
Aren't these the people who sued a web site owner for releasing code he wrote to make his Aibo dance, under the DMCA? Should we really be promoting a company that files criminal charges against geeks for making their robot dogs dance? Shouldn't we at least force Sony to buy an Aibo ad on Slashdot to support our efforts to fight their perversion of law?
A vote for Aibo is a vote against geek freedom. Pick your side.
I know its been mentioned before, but since it still continues... Can the posters please try to refrain from always including a "...this is cool, but I'm not interested until..." comment at the end of nearly every story. This story's version of course is "I just want them to produce the Cerberus? version." Which isn't as bad as normal by comparison. Posters, we know you are ultra-cool, knowledgeable uber-geeks never satisified with anything that comes along because you can always envision something better. Please just don't remind us every time you post a story. Thanks
From: pczc@mindspring.com
//ignore interrupted exceptions - no vanity here...
To: my_aibo@mindspring.com
Subject: Unknown person in the kitchen
while (unknown.stillStanding()) {
unknown.humpLeg();
try {
Thread.sleep(60000);
} catch (Exception e) {
;
}
unknown.evaluate()
}
668: Neighbour of the Beast
Ok, I'll agree to it if you give me a shotgun and a whole lot of shells....
And maybe a good medical insureance contract.
Hey maybe we could write a mod for a popular first person shooter engine which is something like that.
And maybe somebody who can shout instructions like "go up the fire escape... room 303... turn left... no other left!" *boom* "Damn."
Yeah, I think i'd better do this in the virtual world, rather than have to explain to my kid that the dutchman gave him green eyes.
Received: from robber.com thief@robber.com [111.111.177.031]) by mail.sony.com (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA01500 for aibo@sony.com; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 17:53:13 -0500- Id:
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 17:53:13 -0500
From: mr_theif@dont.write.me.ill.write.you.com
Message
To: aibo@sony.com
Subject: Come to poppa!
1) Goto door
2) Unlock door
3) Come to poppa
4) Sit Ubu sit! Good dog. Woof!
can you run a webserver on it, and if it gets slashdotted, will the Aibo roll over and play dead?
You can't win Darth. If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine
A robot that licks and begs and follows orders is great, but not when it's a dog.
As for home defense, well, when the robot is not otherwise occupied (with sex or cleaning house or making me dinner, dammit) it's dressed in it's Carrie Anne Moss "Trinity" outfit and in full Kung-Fu mode.
Yeah, I have a sick, perverse and chauvinistic mind, but it's a very focused sick, perverse chauvinism, and that's a good thing. I think.
Actually, these robots would liberate women from having to deal with twisted desires and expectations of men raised on anime and Maxim magazine, and they can go form knitting circles or covens or whatever it is they do on "girl's night out."
--- Ban humanity.
Speaking of which ... check that site out. It looks more like ROB the robot on Mars, but it's cool nonetheless...
I heard somewhere that 640K should be plenty
The Aibo AI Mind is available to make your pet robot dog a more intelligent companion for you.
The User Manual of the Aibo Kennel Club Robot Artificial Mind teaches you how to interact with the Aibo AI Mind.
A more recently updated Mentifex AI version is freely available for tinkering and for installation in more humanoid robots than the Aibo.
Technological Singularity is on its way -- thanks to the Sony Aibo robot dog!
"Hello, you've got burglars!"
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
You could probably build a Kerberos version =)
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