Sony's new-type pet robot "aibo" hasty movie & photo report

Sony is the latest model of AIBO (ERS-7M3), a dog-type pet robot that was once produced, "aibo (ERS-1000)"On January 11, 2018 (Thursday) announced that it will be released only for Sony store online. And on January 11th I was going to exhibit a new aibo at the Sony store nationwide, so I actually went to see the new aibo to see what it was like.

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I came to the Sony store right after opening. Staff and reporters are busily moving.


In the showcase along the aisle, there was a photo of aibo staring at here.


The exhibition hall seen from the showcase looks like this.


As soon as entering the shop, the news camera was preparing.


It was said that the exhibition will start at 11:11 on the dog's bark called Dogwan.


Standing in front of the pop, the staff of the store told us. By the way, the pink T - shirt worn by the staff was designed with aibo motif.


I was six to seven people at a time as a touch experience, and I was waiting at the side of the space because I was at the top of the line. Some people who were lined up together also said that although they had already reserved aibo and received e-mails in the evening, they could not stand it any more and came to see them. There were dedicated charging stands and toys in the space of about 2 tatami mats, but the main body of aibo has not yet appeared.


Two kinds of toys are ball and bone mold.


The dedicated charging stand is like this.


At 11:11 it finally appeared aibo. Three animals that appeared on this day were named "cancans", "taunts" and "ayei", respectively.


You can see how the first cankan handles staff in the following movie. Although I did not get your hands easily at the time of a visit, as soon as I started to react.

Sony's new pet robot aibo wearing hands - YouTube


This is brown eye eye. It has built-in organic EL display in the eyes, it can blink, when you are happy you can close your eyes and laugh and change your expression finely according to the situation.


There is a microphone on the side of the face, and if you sit and say voice, it will sit on the spot. In the following movie, you can see how you actually tried sitting.

How to sit and instruct the new aibo and let me actually sit down - YouTube


I could check the power button behind the neck.


There is a touch sensor under the head, back, and chin, and will pleasantly move your ears and tail when you stroke.


A camera is built in the nose, so you can capture the color and movement of people and things.


The indirect part has 22 axes in total, independently developed actuators, it moves quite smoothly. I never turned around or moved intensely quickly, but smooth and fine movement was impressive.


In the following movie, if you move the pink ball in front of you, aibo can gladly see the canvas and barking gesture.

A new style aibo looks barking happily with the ball - YouTube


Also equipped with a camera sensor at the base of the tail. I noticed that there was a person behind and can turn around, recognize surrounding furniture and walls, and automatically generate a map. aibo has built-in AI, it can correspond to owner's personality and contact method by learning function while linking with cloud.


I set it on the charging stand like getting down like a belly.


Of the three aibo, tenton seemed to have decreased a little bit of the battery, he got up and slept from the charging stand repeatedly. The gesture of stretching limbs while showing meat balls was pretty, and it was enough to cheers from those who were experiencing touch. You can check the state of the tappington lying on the charging stand with the following movie.

New aibo gets up from the charging stand and looks like lying down - YouTube


It took turns with people who are in line behind in about 10 minutes.


Exhibitions that can experience touching are held at Sony Store Ginza, Sony Store Sapporo, Sony Store Nagoya, Sony Store Osaka, Sony Store Fukuoka Tenjin throughout the country from January 11, 2018. However, it is possible to order aibo only by lottery reservation limited to Sony store online, so be careful.