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Sony ‘fesses up about new Aibo rumours

It’s been a month since Stuff magazine teased us with that mock-up of what a next-generation Aibo might look like, but we’ve still heard nothing official on the possibility of a return for the robot pet and its new PlayStation interface.

Admittedly, no one ever said the ‘Aibo PS’ pooch was real but it received such widespread media coverage, we just had to follow it up this week once the good people of Sony Japan returned to work after the holidays.

Like the trusty newshounds we are, we picked up the phone and spoke to Koji Kurata of Sony Japan’s Electronics Department about the possibility of a comeback for the retired mutt.

Sadly for us, the fairytale ended there, as Kurata-san made very clear: “Sony terminated Aibo production at the end of FY2005 [and we] currently have no plans to revive this business in the future.”

So, it really is game over for Aibo but with Sony bouncing back from a bad few years, something even better emerging from the Shinagawa offices this year seems like a safe bet.

(Crossposted to Tech.co.uk)

10:47 PM J Mark Lytle • Permalink
R&D | Robots
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• Its a shame they’ve stopped work in it. I was hoping that aibo would eventually hit the mass market and the prices would come down. Its a cool toy, an expensive one at that.

  Integration with the PSP could have been a very interesting opportunity, can you imagine using your PSP to view video transmitted over your wireless network from a camera on the front of your aibo.. now that would be awesome

  Posted by Wii Fan on 08/02/17 at 04:29 AM

• just another failed robot product.

  I think no robot ever get to mass market, because the limited capability robot currently can do. Even the most famous robot, Asimo still look awkward yet it takes millions of yen of investment.

  Perhaps it is still another or a couple generations from now that robots can finally enter our doors.

  Posted by notebook lover on 08/02/18 at 12:41 AM