MI-RAI-RT, robo son of a bitchAIBO

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Meet MI-RAI-RT, from the maker of AIBO
- Engadget Sep 13th 2006
....MI RAI-RT, from AIBO's creator Tomoaki Kasugi now of Speecys Corp, is the latest all singing, all dancing robot, all growed-up and ready for release upon Japan. In addition to reading you the news downloaded over its 802.11g WiFi module, MI RAI-RT (which presumably translates to "future judgement" in Japanese) will teach your family English and deliver "3D messages" via RTML -- yes, that'd be Robot Transaction Markup Language -- which entails reading emails or other message types with appropriately intimidating body language.....more...

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TU Darmstadt replacing Sony AIBO
Aibo wedesoft.de 2007/07/04
For participating in the Robocup researchers at the institute for simulation and systems optimisation at the Technical University of Darmstadt were using Sony AIBO robots...Sony has discontinued the AIBO project some time ago and ...TU Darmstadt decided to develop a successor for Sony's robot dog. The robot is going to be released on the market end of this year but depending on the demand initially it it will probably only be available for Robocup teams....more...