Sony ERF-210AW01 manual About Aibo Life, About AIBO-ware, AIBO’s autonomous activities

About AIBO Life

About AIBO-ware

AIBO by itself is capable of only the most basic movements. For more complicated operations, AIBO must be loaded with AIBO-ware that comes on a “Memory Stick.” It is AIBO-ware that gives AIBO its capabilities and character, so you might think of it as AIBO’s “mind.” By combining AIBO with different AIBO-ware and peripheral devices, AIBO can be enjoyed in a variety of ways. AIBO Life is AIBO-ware that allows AIBO to move around autonomously and helps you to raise AIBO into the kind of companion that is best for you.

AIBO’s autonomous activities

AIBO comes with all the necessary hardware, such as a brain, sensors, actuators and power supply, to move about on its own. What AIBO Life adds is a set of emotions, instincts, learning ability and the capacity to mature. Through AIBO Life, AIBO can act according to its own judgements, all the while expressing emotions, collecting information from you and its environment, learning and maturing. With AIBO Life, AIBO will let you know by gesture and sound when it wants you to play with it, and may even go about looking for you. On the other hand, when something catches AIBO’s attention, it may ignore you even when you call its name. The key to getting along with AIBO then is to understand its autonomous nature, and to help it learn and grow.

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