摘 要: | The world's first mass-marketed robot, Sony's Aibo, recognizes its owners' faces and is programmed for sympathy, like a canine companion. Its eyes light up in red to show anger, green to show happiness. It even learns its own name. Aibo owners tend to be fiercely loyal, too. Like so many things Sony has made over the years, the Aibo is a suitable product. And since Sony is pulling the plug on robot production as part of a major restructur- ing, so goes the Aibo. That isn't just disappointing Aibo fans, who bought 150,000 of the toy poodle-sized machines since they were first introduced in 1999 and now worry they
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