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New AIBO - Meet the ERS-7

Posted by michael on from the bow-wow dept.

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)."

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  1. The coolest peripheral... by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: 5, Informative
    The coolest peripheral is one that I'm not sure they'll be showing. They were demonstrating the new Aibo at a small Sony developer gathering the month before last. The gentleman who was doing the demonstration had a tiny remote control with two joysticks and an array of buttons.

    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!

    1. Re:The coolest peripheral... by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: 3, Informative
      I got mine on ebay for less than 1/6th of the new price.

      Every time the new models are released, you find a ton of people selling their old ones. Watch for it -- so many hit at the same time, that they go for peanuts.

      Good luck, kind sir.

  2. I don't like my aibo by peterpi · · Score: 4, Informative
    Hello.

    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 (:

  3. AIBO AI Mind by Mentifex · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Disappointing video by ChristopherAltman · · Score: 3, Informative



    ... here are a few high-quality videos from Tokyo RoboDex 2003.

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    Quantum computing / Artificial intelligence: http://www.umsl.edu/~altmanc/news.html