We've already seen how people form attachments with Aibo. Now we want to know how dogs feel about Sony's $2,900 robo-pup. To find out, I ventured to Nashville, Tennessee, where associate certified ...

Keen to expand the usability of its recently revamped robot dog, Sony has just introduced a new “Aibo Patrol” feature as part of its latest software update. No, it doesn’t turn Aibo into an enraged, ...

Sony makes the new Aibo sound quite human claiming it is “capable of forming an emotional bond with members of the household while providing them with love, affection, and the joy of nurturing and ...

A new update to version 2.5 of the software powering Sony’s adorable Aibo robot dog enables programmable tasks, as well as the ability to feed it with virtual food. A previous update for Aibo from ...

Sony has launched the "Aibo Foster Parent" program for its $2,900 robot dogs, allowing owners whose basic plans have been canceled to donate them. The company will then refurbish the Aibos as ...

Sony on Wednesday revived its robot dog, Aibo, which it put down, so to speak, in 2006. The autonomous entertainment robot brings fun and joy to the entire family, Sony claimed. Among other things, it ...

"I'm an IT guy, so I'm just a down-and-out geek. It's all about the AI for me," Chris Benham tells me, as we sit in his home in sleepy Burlington, Wisconsin, roughly 80 miles northwest of Chicago. He ...

PC Mag on Sony’s latest version of their Aibo robotic companion, the ERS-7. Sony is finally admitting what all of us knew all along: that the Aibo is a dog. Company officials said that there was a ...

And yet, no one has made any effort to make an -actual- robotic dog replacement which looks and acts identical to a real dog despite the existential technology to do so and the demand there would be ...

In the 25 years since college (ignoring childhood), I've had 12 beloved dogs - usually 2 at at time. Real is better. Do you want an "inflatable" spouse, or real? Newest, 10 months, is a Vizsla - ...

Sony Corp. is using a controversial U.S. law aimed at protecting intellectual property to pull the plug on a Web site that helps owners of Aibo, Sony’s popular and pricey robotic pet, teach their ...

Sony has rolled out a 2.50 update for the robot dog that enables, among other things, a web-based interface for programming actions. Beginners can use a visual programming kit that uses blocks to ...