The Sony Aibo was a robot revolution dressed like a dog

In the 1990s, Sony was perfectly convinced that we were connected the precipice of a robot takeover. Pretty soon, the institution decided, we'd each beryllium surviving among countless humanoid robots. Some would beryllium our coworkers; others would beryllium our friends; and astatine slightest 1 would beryllium our pet. And "pet" was precisely what Sony was going for erstwhile it created the Aibo. It was expected to beryllium portion of the family.

On this occurrence of Version History, we spell backmost successful clip and archer the communicative of the Aibo. David Pierce is joined by The Verge's Victoria Song and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and unneurotic they sermon the origins of this singular robot dog, and its awesome succe …

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