News reaches me from those technically-minded folk at The Register and Tech Digest that Sony’s robodog, Aibo, is going to the big kennel in the sky. As the global corporation tries to get back into the black, it is putting its plastic pooch on the back benches. There will be no more R&D (research and development) into Sony’s answer to Toto (Dorothy’s dog in The Wizard of Oz) but you can still buy a robodog – a snip at £1500 – until the end of the month.
Apparently, the essence of Aibo will live on as his technology will be used in other products.
So it’s au revoir rather than goodbye to the robodog. The Mistress's other half is devastated; for him, Aibo was the perfect pet requiring minimal effort and it was another Sony toy for his gadget collection. Of course, however expensive and technically magical he was, Aibo would always have been a poor second best. Sometimes only the real thing will do.
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