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AIBO has offered training courses on Chinese intellectual

The reborn AIBO features new actuator technology allowing it move more smoothly and naturally like a real dog.

One received weekly visits from Sparky, and another spent time with Aibo. A third group had no visits at all.

To program the robots, the SpelBots use Tekkotsu, an open source framework language, which serves as an interface with Sony's Robodog AIBO Open R software architecture.

Caption(s): Sony AIBO, $2,500, discontinued production in March 2006; about a dozen AIBOs were recently on eBay in the $1,700-to-$4,500 range.

Webots allows compilation of control programs to Lego's RCX brick, the AIBO, and K-Team's robots.

on Thursday released the latest version of the robot dog Aibo, which can ''exchange diaries'' with its owner.

AIBO and COLLEGE, were drawn from a national network news program.

The research team, which is funded by NASA and Coca-Cola, develops software program for the robotic pups, which are Sony AIBO Entertainment Robot models.

The robot competition featuring humanoid robots and Sony Corp.'s robot dog AIBO is being held in Japan for the third time, following the first games in Nagoya in 1997 and the fifth tournament hosted jointly by Fukuoka and South Korea's Busan in 2002 to coincide with the real World Cup soccer finals co-hosted by the two countries.

on Saturday unveiled the latest version of the robot dog Aibo, which speaks the Kansai dialect.

The sweepstakes offers consumers the opportunity to enhance their homes with a complete line of Sony entertainment and electronics products, ranging from a 61-inch XBR Plasma WEGA HDTV, a Network Walkman 20GB Hard Drive Digital Music Player, and a 7.0-megapixel Cyber-shot digital camera, to an all-in-one VAIO desktop PC, and the latest AIBO Entertainment Robot.

Robosapien is the latest in a series of robotic toys following Sony's robo-dog Aibo.

Like Sony's robot pooch Aibo, Qrio is the brainchild of Sony's Entertainment Robot Company.

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