By simply showing
a CD cover AIBO will play
programmed tracks from it.
mover and shaker
AIBO enjoys music and it will play your favourite music on
demand. AIBO plays internet radio, CDs and MP3s through
your PC. Being a natural performer, AIBO loves to dance.
Give the voice commands “Dance to the music” or “Groove
to the music” and AIBO will listen to nearby music and
dance along in sync.
opinion maker
Your AIBO’s personality and moods will change depending
on the relationship it has with you and its environment.
Thanks to a highly expressive face and body, communi
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cating with AIBO and understanding its feelings becomes
second nature. Turning its head when spoken to, it rewards
you with its full attention. AIBO recognises and responds to
your voice, name and facial expressions and will come over
to greet you the moment it’s aware of your presence.
Multi-colour LEDs allow AIBO to express emotions and what it is thinking.
A gentle stroke on AIBO’s
‘touch’ sensors will trigger
an adorable response.
You can send an email
instruction to AIBO
asking it to take a picture
and send it back to
a mobile telephone equipped
with e-mail access.
expert navigator
With the Navigator interface you can instruct AIBO wirelessly from your
PC to great performances. In navigator you can see what AIBO has in
its surroundings.
With MIND 3, AIBO has a short term memory of the location of its
items: up to about 5 minutes – which is 2 minutes more than goldfish.
This means that instead of scanning the room for visual patterns,
AIBO can head directly to its AIBOne and pink ball or its energy station.
With the AIBO Entertainment Player, you can navigate and control
AIBO to take pictures, record movie clips or avoid obstacles. You can
contact your AIBO from anywhere in the world by Internet by using
the AIBO Entertainment Player.
news breaker
AIBO records the days topics from its own perspective, with photos, and adds comments based on how
it feels to the diary on AIBO Entertainment Player. Befitting a true denizen of the global Internet
community, AIBO’s diary can be transferred to an online blog.
AIBO’s inquisitive mind knows no boundaries. Eager to enlighten as well as entertain,
AIBO reads out the news content from your favourite websites,
using RSS feeds.
In House Sitting mode, AIBO takes pictures or records sounds
from the Energy Station in response to moving objects,
faces, or sounds. When it detects a movement, face or sound,
you can set it to snap a picture and notify you by e-mail.
AIBO locates autonomously its energy
station when its energy is dropping.
The pattern on the Energy Station Pole helps
AIBO to localise and position itself quickly.
