The Globe and Mail: Breaking Business News :: Sony’s breeders rear Aibo 2

By JACK KAPICA

Globe and Mail Update

The new version, which Sony unveiled Tuesday in Toronto, is also lighter than its predecessor, has more sophisticated software to demonstrate a wider range of emotions, more motors (13 of them running 20 joints) for more tricks and it can now understand spoken commands instead of musical ones. Its brushed-titanium coat also comes in three colours — blue, champagne and black.[…] And it talks. Endlessly.

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