Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Aibo are one of several types of robotic dogs designed and manufactured by Sony ; there have been several different kinds of Aibo since their introduction in 1999. Able to walk, "see", and recognize spoken commands, they are considered to be autonomous robots, since they are able to learn and mature based on external stimuli from their owner or environment, or from other Aibo.
Many Aibo owners enjoy teaching their pets new behaviors by reprogramming them (in Sony's special 'R-Code' language). However, in October of 2001, Sony sent a cease-and-desist notice to the webmaster of Aibopet.com, demanding that he stop distributing code to modify the functioning of the Aibo. Eventually, in the face of many outraged Aibo owners, Sony reconsidered and released a programmer's kit for 'non-commercial' use.
The Aibo's sounds were programmed by Japanese DJ/avant-garde composer Nobukazu Takemura, considered by many to be highly skilled at fusing mechanic and organic concepts, and the bodies of the "3x" series (Latte and Macaron, the round-headed Aibo released in 2001) were designed by visual artist Katsura Moshino.
External Links
- Comparison of AIBO models
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aibo."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
AIBO | English | Artificial Intelligence roBOt | Computer - (Sony, AI) |
AIBO | French | Association internationale des biblicistes et orientalistes | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Title |
High Tech |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
 |
| "Cheaper than aibo" by Jesse Braun Commentary: "Its a lot cheaper than aibo whaufff, grrrrrr." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aibo | 273 |
sony aibo | 49 |
aibo wallpaper | 10 |
31l aibo ers | 7 |
aibo video | 6 |
aibo movie | 5 |
aibo robot | 4 |
220 aibo | 4 |
aibo robot dog | 3 |
aibo cheap | 2 |
aibo sony robot dog | 2 |
aibo sale | 2 |
aibo dog | 2 |
aibo life | 2 |
buy aibo | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: obia. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-o" | |
-1 letter: abo, bio, boa, obi. | |
-2 letters: ab, ai, ba, bi, bo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-i-o" | |
+1 letter: aboil, biota, cobia, obias. | |
+2 letters: akimbo, albino, bagnio, bailor, barrio, basion, bilboa, biogas, biotas, boccia, bonaci, bonita, bonsai, cobias, gabion, isobar, obelia, obtain, phobia. | |
+3 letters: abioses, abiosis, abiotic, aboding, abolish, abomasi, aboulia, aboulic, abrosia, aerobia, aerobic, airboat, albinos, amboina, ambroid, ameboid, amoebic, bagnios, bailors, bailout, bambino, barrios, basions, bastion, begonia, bifocal, bilboas, bimodal, biomass, bipolar, bivouac, bizonal, boarish, boating, bobtail, boccias, bohemia, bolivar, bolivia, bonacis, bonitas, bonsais, boracic, botanic, bothria, cabildo, caribou, ciboria, coalbin, cohabit, copaiba, corbina, diabolo, fibroma, gabions, garboil, hobnail, iceboat, inboard, isobare, isobars, isobath, jacobin, jigaboo, kilobar, kolbasi, labroid, lobelia, mailbox, niobate, obelias, oblasti, obtains, obviate, orbital, ouabain, parboil, phobias, pigboat, rabboni, rainbow, tabloid, taborin, tabouli, vibrato. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 49 42 4F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references).- .. -... --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001001 01000010 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A I B O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0049 0042 004F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35433649 |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Images: Digital Art 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Abbreviations | 5. Acronyms 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
