CES: Sony Aibo 2018

[NumLock21]

Sony's robotic dog Aibo has made its return to this years CES and now it's looks even more realistic. The new AIBO features eyes made of OLED. There are 2 cameras, its nose and one near its tail. The nose cam is used for detecting its owner, family members, and other people. The camera on the back is for scanning its surrounding area, so they know where they are. Aibo has 3 areas that will make it respond to your touch, its head, under the chin, and back. When touching those areas, Aibo will show a wide range of movements, a lot more than it's predecessor. It's powered by a quad core processor and it also has 4G LTE, as well as WiFi.

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Multiple touch-sensitive zones on Aibo's back, front and head ensured the robot visibly reacted to the Sony-approved robodog handlers, but I'm more interested to see how the robot dog behaves once it learns to differentiate between owners. According to Sony spokesman, your Aibo will begin to learn which humans give the best snuggles, or at least whoever pets it the most.

The dog understood a handful of English-language directions, including hand-shaking and commands to sit. The revived Aibo has cute, glassy OLED eyes and a camera inside its nose, which can act as a webcam for your home when you're away. The robopup contains a quad-core CPU, built-in LTE and WiFi, as well as motors and gyroscopes to augment the 22 different articulated parts. It has speaker for robotic yips and yaps and four microphones to pick up voice commands -- something it was capable of doing despite the noise of a packed Sony press event.

For now, Aibo is only available in Japan for 170,000 yen, that's almost $1,800 USD. At $1,800 it is expensive, but buyers will also need to pay a subscription for Aibo's cloud connected services. It's about $27 per month or a 3 year subscription can be purchased upfront for $790 usd. Aibo will start shipping Jan 11, 2018.

 

 

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Previous Sony Aibos

 

 

https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/08/new-sony-aibo-first-impressions/

https://www.slashgear.com/sony-aibo-hands-on-at-ces-2018-in-the-usa-to-make-us-envious-09514620/

 

[SeraphicWings]

My eyes bleed seeing that price tag

[Techicolors]

this reminds me of the Toyota POD concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_concept_vehicles,_2000–09#Pod

[Rune]

3 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

how much did the original Aibo cost? o_o

The community around the remaining Aibo's is INSANE. There is almost no price they wouldn't pay to repair them.

[NumLock21]

5 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

how much did the original Aibo cost? o_o

250,000 yen or about $2,300 usd

[LienusLateTips]

Off topic - read that as "CES: Sony Jibo 2018"

 

Jibo is stuck in my head now, thanks LTT

[Brooksie359]

But why though? I don't see the point of these when real dogs exist and are much better. Maybe I am missing the point or use case.

[Kamina]

Just get a real dog.

 

Is this for people who have the tendency to eat dogs?

[Notional]

I remember when the first Aibo launched back in the day. It was pretty damn impressive how much robot technology they could put into a small consumer electronics device. Well, a lot of time has passed since then, and the internet has... "developed". I wonder how long it takes someone from 4chan to buy this an install a fleshlight. 

[TheUzu]

17 minutes ago, Kamina said:

Just get a real dog.

 

Is this for people who have the tendency to eat dogs?

You don’t have to pick up it’s crap or feed it.

 

9/10 add fur and a heater to it and I’ll give 11/10.

[NumLock21]

19 minutes ago, Kamina said:

Just get a real dog.

 

Is this for people who have the tendency to eat dogs?

For those who have a allergic reaction and places where real pets aren't allowed.

[captain_to_fire]

I hope it’s better than Jibo

[Beskamir]

So this is what my human robot interaction prof was referring to yesterday... interesting.

 

[Tech_Dreamer]

i wouldn't mind having this one as an alternate to having a real dog, less annoying noise,no poop, no smell, no irritating behavior , it's like everything that a dog couldn't do.

[elkenrod]

Can I name mine, Skynet?

[Cheezdoodlez]

$1,800 is alot but looking at real puppy prices(in Sweden) it's around the same prices. And real puppies don't have wifi! 

[Bananasplit_00]

first off, the previous ones look so bad its laughable, but this one while better isnt great either. robot pets are a neat idea but kinda takes away from what i see the point of haveing one beyond they are cute which is haveing something you need to take care off so you have a reason to get your shit together

[Guest]

But does it annoy you in the night and wee everywhere?

[NumLock21]

The subscription is what's killing it.

[porina]

I bought one of the 2nd generation ones, ERS-210 I think it was. Cheaper than 1st gen, but not cheap by any means, think it was around £1200 ball park at the time. Still got mine in storage case but she's got droopy head syndrome and the jitters, quite likely the batteries are past their best by now too. Don't know if there are any "vets" still around that can repair those, and I'm not motivated enough to do a DIY repair.

 

Why?... why not? It's another gadget toy. I even went to owner meetups where there were random events like racing them.

 

[SpaceGhostC2C]

5 hours ago, Tech_Dreamer said:

i wouldn't mind having this one as an alternate to having a real dog, less annoying noise,no poop, no smell, no irritating behavior , 

 

Basically, no dog. I guess it's a way for people who don't want a dog to own a "dog" because they'd feel weird petting the back of their smartphone or something.

 

Then again, toys are toys, and to each its own. The real red light to me is the $27 a month of glorious IoT bullshit.

 

 

[Matu20]

This actually looks cute, was expecting a bit more creepy look.

[Brooksie359]

13 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

For those who have a allergic reaction and places where real pets aren't allowed.

There are dogs with hair that are hypoallergenic.