Gadgetory

hey this is Sam with a verge I'm here at Sony's booth at CES 2018 and I am with the ketta schedule at the show is it the new iBook I'm a cat person normally good you are pretty I'm like am i cute too thank you thank you ever thank you so I bow is one of Sony Sony's iconic grants it's a it's a range that dates back to the late 90s in Japan it was a whole series of robot dogs but it's been brought back for 2018 with this new model and it's a lot more advanced than previous ones you can see these expressive OLED eyes that he seems to be giving me the puppy eyes with there are touch sensors all over it so you can pet it under the chin on the top of its head on its back and you can see how he reacts to the sensation of being petted there's a camera in his nose so we can recognize people in the family that he lives with and there's a camera on his back which helps orientate it in his surroundings and of course the whole point of AIBO is that it's a robot pet right so it it can sit it can fetch it go and shake your hand it can pick up the bone if if we can align itself with a bone it's not that not the greatest environment to recreate a home with all these people and Wi-Fi signals flying around so I was using to cut the camera right now to align himself with the bone and if we're lucky he's gonna look down and pick it up with his mouth well it was it was a good tray good good boy so yeah this eyeball model is a lot more technologically advanced than previous ones that came out you know 10-15 years ago there are 20 through actuators in the body there's touch panels everywhere to help you kind of pet it and give it realistic animation and feedback the battery life is about two hours it uses this camera on the rear to locate its charging stand and it takes about three hours to charge up from there so it's kind of like a robot vacuum cleaner with legs and yeah these OLED eyes are leveraging Sony's technology that the whole point is that it's meant to interact naturally with your voice and through the camera in its nose it'll actually recognize family members that play with it more and sort of build a stronger relationship with them it'll it'll actually interact with them in a more friendly in realistic way all of all of these technological advances well the concept isn't totally new the technological advances are there to help build a more realistic relationship with the dog and that's actually a really big deal because well the idea of a robot pet may seem strange in Japan like there was a huge huge community of AI both owners who got really upset when her support for the line ended there's no longer a technical support for IO in Japan and some people have even gone as far as to give funerals for their dogs so this is the kind of thing that people really do feel a bond with and the technological advances are actually going to improve that kind of bond so eyeball is only confirmed for a Japanese release right now just like the original eyeball line was Japan only this new model is shipping in Japan from next week the price is around three thousand dollars and there's no plans to bring it to the US just yet but it it's answering English commands right now so here's hoping that robot dogs will be filling the homes in America sometime soon we're stopping right now he's going to sleep oh he's got a selection about with another dog okay sorry sorry I said we killed over