Aibo and the Days of Hot Dog-on-Robot Action
In 1999, the world met Aibo, the $2,500 robotic dog from Sony. The following year brought quite the litter of less expensive mechanized pups. Real dogs, however, had mixed feelings about their cyber counterparts. There was the immobile singing Poo-chi by Tiger Electronics, a company that also made the i-Cybie, which could lift its leg…
