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New AIBO - Meet the ERS-7
ejtttje writes "Sony announced today (also here) the ERS-7, the third generation of the AIBO. New specifications include more computational power, improved sensors, and, last but not least, built-in 802.11b WiFi standard! Additional information from the Japanese Flash promo includes this flash video. (8MB, mirror - sorry, no mpg). Sony will also be releasing a new version of the OPEN-R SDK to continue support of third party AIBO developers. (self plug ;) Pre-orders start October 10, and ship early November, for $1599 (in the US)."
or may be we should call it beodog ?
This new ERS-7 will usher in a new era of robotics wonders. Why, it seems like just yesterday that I got my very first AIBO. It wasn't cheap, either -- it cost over $2,600!
The addition of Wireless Fidelity (or "Wi-Fi") will only improve robot dog technology. I look forward to the day that these robots run Linux.
I'm not Seth Finkelstein. I still speak the truth.
The next reality show...
"Hack the neighbors AIBO"
Gibble: Descriptive of an emotional state in which one's mind is scrabbling for some purchase on reality
I thought for a second that the headline said that the ESR is the new Aibo. Then came the dreams of a massive, self-replicating army of robotic ESRs descending on a certain company in Utah. Then I realized that I am dyslexic. Oh well.
Enter the new hacker sport of WarRoboDogWalking.
pi = 3.141592653589793helpimtrappedinauniversefactory7
Finally an intelligent wireless access point that can move itself around the house!
Slashdotter are stupid and biased.
One of these, some robots kids and my family is complete.
Omnis amans amens
If you're like me, you've got an Aibo who does all kinds of cool shit, but only when nobody else is around. When ten people are circling the Aibo and cooing and ahing, the sensors get all confused and he just sits and yaps like he thinks he's blocked. With the remote, he was able to turn off the eyes momentarily, as well as putting the thing in a no-reaction mode where he could just reposition the thing and restart whichever react mode it was in.
If I could get my hands on one of these, I could impress friends more easily, and they'd probably sell a dozen times as many!
AIBO's clever new behaviour has been rewarded with a new toy, the 'AIBONE'. In the form of a pink bone, AIBO can, for the first time ever, pick it up in it's mouth.
I suppose it can lick it's balls too, just like the real thing !
$ strings FTP.EXE | grep Copyright
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
WiFi on the Aibos is nothing new.
We have a few "older" Aibos. They all of pcmcia wireless cards. They don't support wep, but I'm not too worried about somebody sniffing packets while the dogs talk to each other. The funny part is that the pcmcia slot is in the rear of the dogs between the legs. You gotta stick card in the dog's ass. I guess if the wifi is built in, its more humain than the sepository form.
i could not think of anything clever.
Be sure to change your WEP keys regularly (You are running at least 128-bit WEP, changing it weekly, right?).. You wouldn't want someone spying on you with that built-in camera..
"Someone hacked my dog from the internet and made it piss all over the bed"
Mmmm, wardriving just got more interesting.
Sony is behind it! Sony is bad like MSFT! I hate them.
When Steve Jobs announces half the product for twice the cost, then I'll be interested!
I cant wait for my iWiFAIBO G5!
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
It doesn't do anything at all useful. If people want a pet, far better to own a real animal that will teach the owner about responsibility and patience - after all, you cannot turn a puppy off. The type of robot that IS useful is the Roomba (spelling?) that vacuums the floor and from reviews, appears to do a good job too. Anyway, I'm a pussy man.
O'WONDERWe're working on it.
I was interested in the new Aibo, but the flash-video is a downer. The new Aibo moves very slowly and robo-like.. i was hoping it'd be a lot smoother and faster.
The SDK looks cool though.
... welcome our robotic dog overlords.
You knew it *had* to be said.
"Go Daggit!"
The ERS-7 can understand nearly 180 voice commands
Including "give me back my $1599"?
8 megs and it just shows the bot walking and fetching a bone? Come on!!
It kinda cute how it notices the bone and wags its tail after picking it up, but stil.. for the ultimate experience, you should get a real dog..
Here's an idea: You can use the bot to train the dog. For example.. guard the sofa so the dog won't sit on it and stuff.
Slashdot community, please notice: I am looking for a girlfriend.
Nave H. Weiss
Wow 7 completely different acronyms in one story post. Not bad.
For a moment, I thought that an Aibo was launched into space with some new European earth observation satellite. And I was thinking, what the HELL kind of publicity stunt is THIS???
Accountability on the heads of the powerful.
Power in the hands of the accountable.
The model with built-in firearms is, of course, the ESR-7...
I have (well, my team at work has...) and aibo ERS-220, and it really is a heap of shit. This is not a troll; I really do have one, and it really is shit.
We were expecting it to do cool stuff, but it just wonders round the room bumping into stuff. After a while it sits down and plays a little song. After doing this a few times it runs out of battery and dies.
That's it. Biggest waste of two thousand pounds ever. Now the new one's come out we'll be lucky to get four hundred for it on eBay.
I'm done now (:
These two companies should hook up.
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http://www.aerospectives.com
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Did anyone else feel like they were watching the Jetsons when they saw that flash video? Some of this stuff is so cool, I think for a second, "Nah, that can only happen in the future, like after the year 2001 or something.... Oh."
Hack the teacher's AIBO, have it eat ALL the homework. :-D
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
Hack these with a worm or something so they all wander around exclaiming, "EXTERMINATE!"
New aibo w/wifi == free hot spot sniffer.
Your wireless connection will never be safe!
Support Israeli punk bands. Man Alive.
The Aibo Kennel Club has an Aibo AI Mind that needs some re-working and hacking so as to be installed in your pet robot dog -- making it an intelligent companion.
A Python Software Development (SDK) is available for the Evolution Robotics ER1 Personal Robot -- why not for the Aibo?
The Python AI Weblog is a start for coding Python AI minds for Aibos and other robots.
The Visual Basic AI Weblog promotes AI coding not just for Aibo pet dogs but for humanoid robots.
The Perl AI Weblog is for perl geeks, Aibo owners, and coders of server-side 'Net-roaming AI.
The Lisp AI Weblog goes beyond Aibo and other toys into the most serious AI theory and practice.
Please support public-domain open-source artificial intelligence for Aibo and all other robots.
The mirror is slower than the original site, and, why bother? The 8MB isn't worth it at all. You can see an aibo picking up its "aiBONE". *wow*
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I hope I'm not the only one that has the theme music from the short-lived Doctor Who spinoff "K-9 and Company" stuck in my head.
K9 Doo dooo deee deee doo doo K9
It's not often that Doctor Who fans get to see some new technology that their favourite program envisioned. Now if only this came equipped with a laser beam in the snout and a voice synthesiser to reply "yes master" in the appropriate British accent when called.
Why that gives a whole new meaning to packet sniffing!
The sending of this message pretty much inconveniences everyone involved.
There's a little Dr. Evil in all of us...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Woody Allen should sue for copyright infringement.
>> Practice Safe Hex
From the press release: "For example, the owner can send an email instruction to AIBO asking it to take an unsuspecting picture of the
owner's children and send it back to the mobile telephone."
Spy on your children with AIBO! Seriously, that's pretty creepy. But I suppose the first time a kid gets in trouble because AIBO was snooping around, he'll
1) Stop doing naughty stuff when AIBO is around.
2) Put a towel over AIBO's head.
3) Hack AIBO to send dad a picture of the kids sitting around reading books.
4) Hack AIBO to send a picture of dad in a compromising position to dad's boss.
5) Have a swarm of BattleBugs attack AIBO.
If you want a cheaper, less intelligent but still cool robot dog, get an I-Cybie. I don't believe it is being manufactured any more but there are still accessories available for it. It's a babe magnet for the poor geek.
--- I'm Green Hornet's sidekick not Inspector Clouseau's!
Remembering this, perhaps the 4th generation Aibo could use similar technology. And with the AIBOne bone thing in this unit, its a step toward having it feed itself.
Drop a couple little hydrogen capsule "treats" in a bowl, and then go around picking up empty ones from behind the couch.
What?
A flamethrower and/or a chainsaw on Aibo, and he's all set for Robot Wars!
I think these are really cool, but from playing with my cat, all I really want is a pet that can talk and do things for me. I swear if my cat coul get me a beer from the fridge by just me telling him, i'd be willing to pay a few grand for that.
On another note this whole camera in the AIBO that you can watch - does anyone else think of "Familiars"
Ave Molech Setting
Sounds like a real dog - "arse", "sniffing"
"Robo Puppy commencing 2 hour yipping session. Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip!" -- Robo Puppy
you didnt think it was for something else did you ? why else would it be 1000$+ do you think clever peop[le are going to buy this ?
just another "hey look at me , iam white fat lazy and proud" toy
For a minute there, I thought it was the "ESR-7". The first is annoying enough...
in our house we feel exactly the same, spent 2grand on a piece of plastic shit that is just 1step beyond a childs toy, walks about plays its ringtone sounding songs flashes a few lights then runs out of power then goes and charges for 8 hours.
Sony must be lauging in their gold plated boardrooms that white folk are stupid enough to buy them
Smithers, release the AIBO dolls.
Remember those baby dolls of yesteryear that drank water and peed in a diaper that had to be changed?
I want a robot dog that drinks and marks its territory like a real dog, with one of its hind legs raised.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Now that ABIO has evolved to the 3rd generation you'd think Sony has stream lined the process and make ABIO less expensive. I would love to have one, but at ~$1600 bucks not to mention accessories and software it is out of my reach. I think Sony would make more money on this product if they could make it less expensive.
Be sure to mount friggin lazer beams on their friggin heads!!
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Email, eh? So what happens when your AIBO gets on a few mailing lists and the spam starts coming in?
I suppose it will be similar to what happens when a real dog gets some spam - you'll have to deal with some strange shit.
GL
For example, the owner can send an email instruction to AIBO asking it to take an unsuspecting picture of the owner's children and send it back to the mobile telephone.
What is this, the x-10 camera for pedophiles? Then there's that "pink bone" thing:
Finally, AIBO's clever new behaviour has been rewarded with a new toy, the 'AIBOne'. In the form of a pink bone, AIBO can, for the first time ever, pick it up in its mouth.
Yes, AIBO, pick up the pink bone, again and again. Mmmm....good robot dog. I think the engineers who designed this were spending just a little too much time in the lab.
With Wifi capability, you could give this thing commands from some distance (with the appropriate yagi or waveguide antenna).
Or you could give commands to your neighbor's AIBO... Imagine the potential for invasion of privacy: AIBO wanders into your bathroom (or the bathroom of the girl next door), takes a picture, wanders out, emails it to somebody...
A ready-made remote-controllable robot spy in your house? Yikes.
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
The only comfort is that unsuspecting Aibo users have very little chance of broadcasting their home contents to hackers passing by. Under existing Aibo software (and probably under the new ERS-7 software), the Wifi card turn off automatically if it doesn't detect an active Wifi network around.
As usual, mostly semi-knowledgeable people are at risk, not the newbies nor the "experts"...
--
Christian.
Aibotoys Aibo Games
C.
it can find it's recharging station and recharge itself.
that, my friends, changes everything.
K.
Get a dog so that they can meet women, others buy an AIBO to make sure they never meet women.
-- Be careful what you say. Someone might remind you about it another day.
This made me think of a movie I saw as a kid called C.H.O.M.P.S.
Now that it has wireless, will I have to treat my Aibo for worms? (Slammer, Blaster, Welchia, et al)
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
Maybe next generation.
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The Aibo 210 and 220 have been able to do wireless from the beginning thanks to a PCMCIA/PC-Card slot, and special WiFi cards from Sony that fit in the limited space. The new model just makes the WiFi built in so you don't need to buy the add on card.
I still think she's cute. Maybe you'll grow up some day.
I got a dog from the animal shelter...$40. and she can fetch me a beer from a fridge. In college it was common knowledge that the dog was smarter than any of the girls that my roomates or I dated.
And I'm going to hack them all!
$1599!? No offense an Aibo might be cool, but I'd rather get a new computer then a little robotic dog that would most likely get broken hella-lot easier.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
The Rise of the Machines ... cute little machine puppies! John Connor had better board over that "doggie-door" on his front door.
They released some update that allowed him to find the charging station and charge himself when his battery was low. That kind of AI is amazing. It's almost sentient.
Damn my dsyleiax, uh... dyslec (*&$^(*&#@*#^$(* dsik .. danget! Never mnid. :P
All Ad hominem replies happily ignored as the sender shall be deemed to lack the faculties to comprehend the equation.
I thought, for a second, that they were modeling the new AIBO after ESR.
// file: mice.h
#include "frickin_lasers.h"
Given that the average sized dog costs its owner $6400 over its life span, $1599 is very cost effective, albeit not as affectionate.
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ERS-6, we hardly knew ye...