Sony sees a robot family in every home

Jan Paschal

Sunday, September 9, 2001 at 20:00 JST

NEW YORK — Instead of a chicken in every pot, Japan’s electronics giant Sony Corp. sees a robot family in every household.

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Now Sony is revving up to sell two new AIBO playmates — ivory-coloured Latte and charcoal-coloured Macaron — for $850 each. The robots look like roly-poly puppies and, like all AIBOs, are equipped with digital cameras. They cost a little more than half the $1,500 price of second-generation AIBO, launched late last year.

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