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	<title>Comments on: Aibo To Be Put Down</title>
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		<title>By: 993ti</title>
		<link>http://grandtextauto.org/2006/02/03/aibo-to-be-put-down/comment-page-1/#comment-310281</link>
		<dc:creator>993ti</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Although Sony discontinued Aibo, it still remains popular and lives on by those who own them and create software.
It is still sad that Sony stopped production but the upside is that our Aibos are worth more now :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Although Sony discontinued Aibo, it still remains popular and lives on by those who own them and create software.<br />
It is still sad that Sony stopped production but the upside is that our Aibos are worth more now :)</p>
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		<title>By: Louis Dargin</title>
		<link>http://grandtextauto.org/2006/02/03/aibo-to-be-put-down/comment-page-1/#comment-83325</link>
		<dc:creator>Louis Dargin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The &lt;a href=&#039;http://www.dasatech.co.kr/upload/movie/Genibo_0327.wmv&#039; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; that I mentioned.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href='http://www.dasatech.co.kr/upload/movie/Genibo_0327.wmv' rel="nofollow">video</a> that I mentioned.</p>
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		<title>By: Louis Dargin</title>
		<link>http://grandtextauto.org/2006/02/03/aibo-to-be-put-down/comment-page-1/#comment-83324</link>
		<dc:creator>Louis Dargin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Perhaps those researchers may find a substitute in DasaTech&#039;s yet to be released robot &quot;dog&quot; named &lt;a href=&#039;http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12532440/&#039; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Genibo&lt;/a&gt;.  A video of it in action can be downloaded &lt;a&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.

This &lt;a href=&#039;http://www.dasatech.com/product/classB_list.asp?classB=b013&#039; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;page&lt;/a&gt; from DataTech&#039;s website has specs for &quot;Dato&quot;, which seems identical to Genibo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps those researchers may find a substitute in DasaTech&#8217;s yet to be released robot &#8220;dog&#8221; named <a href='http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12532440/' rel="nofollow">Genibo</a>.  A video of it in action can be downloaded <a>here</a>.</p>
<p>This <a href='http://www.dasatech.com/product/classB_list.asp?classB=b013' rel="nofollow">page</a> from DataTech&#8217;s website has specs for &#8220;Dato&#8221;, which seems identical to Genibo.</p>
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		<title>By: michael</title>
		<link>http://grandtextauto.org/2006/02/03/aibo-to-be-put-down/comment-page-1/#comment-83289</link>
		<dc:creator>michael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/mg19025485.400.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;recent article in the New Scientist&lt;/a&gt; (subscription required) discusses the concern over the robots demise among robotics and AI researchers. Excerpt: 

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 Sony&#039;s decision to discontinue production of its Aibo robotic dogs has created major concern among robotics researchers, who have long used the products to test new artificial intelligence systems. The popularity of Sony&#039;s Aibo made it the closest thing to a standard robot the industry has seen, and researchers have been frantically moving to secure the remaining stocks of the device. A group of scientists who compete in the Aibo-inspired RoboCup soccer tournament is preparing a volume of published research papers based on Aibo studies to present to Sony in an attempt to convince the company to resurrect the robot or develop an alternative. Though it was designed as a consumer product, Aibo comes with a camera, sensors, a computer chip, and the ability to walk, which offered researchers all the features they needed to test new systems in an off-the-shelf package, saving them the trouble of building their own devices from scratch while providing a common platform to compare different systems. While Sony has pledged to service the latest Aibo model for seven years, many researchers hoping to stockpile the robots for the RoboCup Four-Legged Challenge are finding inventories depleted. &quot;Anybody who is planning to restock now is out of luck,&quot; said Peter Stone, an artificial intelligence researcher from the University of Texas at Austin. A potential substitute is the Robosapien, a device produced by Hong Kong&#039;s WowWee Robotics that, while lacking Aibo&#039;s sensors and processing power, has a level of flexibility that inventor Mark Tilden hopes will enable the device to be easily modified for research purposes. As another potential alternative, University of Pennsylvania researcher Daniel Koditschek has developed the EduBot, which can run faster than the Aibo and also leap and flip.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A <a href="http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/mg19025485.400.html" rel="nofollow">recent article in the New Scientist</a> (subscription required) discusses the concern over the robots demise among robotics and AI researchers. Excerpt: </p>
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 Sony&#8217;s decision to discontinue production of its Aibo robotic dogs has created major concern among robotics researchers, who have long used the products to test new artificial intelligence systems. The popularity of Sony&#8217;s Aibo made it the closest thing to a standard robot the industry has seen, and researchers have been frantically moving to secure the remaining stocks of the device. A group of scientists who compete in the Aibo-inspired RoboCup soccer tournament is preparing a volume of published research papers based on Aibo studies to present to Sony in an attempt to convince the company to resurrect the robot or develop an alternative. Though it was designed as a consumer product, Aibo comes with a camera, sensors, a computer chip, and the ability to walk, which offered researchers all the features they needed to test new systems in an off-the-shelf package, saving them the trouble of building their own devices from scratch while providing a common platform to compare different systems. While Sony has pledged to service the latest Aibo model for seven years, many researchers hoping to stockpile the robots for the RoboCup Four-Legged Challenge are finding inventories depleted. &#8220;Anybody who is planning to restock now is out of luck,&#8221; said Peter Stone, an artificial intelligence researcher from the University of Texas at Austin. A potential substitute is the Robosapien, a device produced by Hong Kong&#8217;s WowWee Robotics that, while lacking Aibo&#8217;s sensors and processing power, has a level of flexibility that inventor Mark Tilden hopes will enable the device to be easily modified for research purposes. As another potential alternative, University of Pennsylvania researcher Daniel Koditschek has developed the EduBot, which can run faster than the Aibo and also leap and flip.<br />
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		<title>By: mary</title>
		<link>http://grandtextauto.org/2006/02/03/aibo-to-be-put-down/comment-page-1/#comment-80964</link>
		<dc:creator>mary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 02:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>bad dog. at least we still have a fufu.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>bad dog. at least we still have a fufu.</p>
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		<title>By: michael</title>
		<link>http://grandtextauto.org/2006/02/03/aibo-to-be-put-down/comment-page-1/#comment-80863</link>
		<dc:creator>michael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2006 23:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Looks like they&#039;re not just discontinuing the Aibo, but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/01/qrio_and_aibo_the_memories_hug.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;QRIO as well&lt;/a&gt;. Too bad - both robots were great platforms for research in entertainment robotics.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looks like they&#8217;re not just discontinuing the Aibo, but the <a href="http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/01/qrio_and_aibo_the_memories_hug.html" rel="nofollow">QRIO as well</a>. Too bad &#8211; both robots were great platforms for research in entertainment robotics.</p>
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