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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 ?
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.
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.
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 (:
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."
"Wireless Fidelity"
Remember Victor record label with the dog staring into the horn of a victrola? This one should be staring into a pringles can.
Hack these with a worm or something so they all wander around exclaiming, "EXTERMINATE!"
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.
Has anyone seriously thought about using AIBOs to detect wireless access points? Why not let them roam freely around a building looking for insecure or unauthorized access points? You could use the camera on the AIBO to take a picture of the location so that a human can investigate the situation later. Heck, could you unleash a pack of them and attempt to triangulate the source of a signal?
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.
"Robo Puppy commencing 2 hour yipping session. Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip!" -- Robo Puppy
Be sure to mount friggin lazer beams on their friggin heads!!
All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
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"...
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Christian.
Aibotoys Aibo Games
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Got to love Slashdot: $2500 Gaming rig = great, but a $1500 programmable robot = dumb investment. Being unhappy with an Aibo you don't get new programs for (or write them for free) is a bit like being depressed with a game console that you didn't buy any games for.