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Design a New Robot, and Win an AIBO

By Gizmodo Published September 4, 2002, 2:11 am ET

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Global Business Network-sponsored contest to “imagine and design a similar but vastly more advanced doglike entity.” The prize? A new AIBO, specifically the ERS-31L.

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