Re: Sony to quit manufacturing AIBO, QRIO
- From: Traveler <traveler@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:38:59 -0500
On 27 Jan 2006 04:26:41 GMT, curt@xxxxxxxx (Curt Welch) wrote:
>We had been talking about these machines not too long ago here so I thought
>some of you might be interested in this:
>
>http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060126/kyodo/d8fce6tg5.html
>
>(Kyodo) _ Sony Corp. said Thursday it will cease manufacturing the popular
>robot dog AIBO by the end of March and stop developing a new version of the
>humanoid robot QRIO soon, as part of its efforts to improve profitability.
That's too bad. It makes sense that Sony should stop making these
robots. They're not making a profit from them. The reason is simple,
IMO. The software is not intelligent enough.
All the general purpose robot makers (Honda, Sony, etc...) face a
similar problem. The public wants robots that can do chores around the
house, chores that require sophisticated intelligence. We're not there
yet. But it's coming. The good thing about all this is that we now
have good robot hardware technology.
Louis Savain
Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
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