AIBO lives! Meet BJ, without the Sony bugbear

With Sony's AIBO long pushing daisies, it's getting harder and harder to field a team in RoboCup's four-legged league. No longer: meet BJ, the dark lord successor to the Sony AIBO. Developed specifically for research and competition, the BJ from aXi stands 12.2-inches tall and features a Linux OS, ARM11 CPU, Kondo KRS-4013 robot servo, 64MB RAM / 16MB ROM, 350k pixel CMOS sensor, IR sensor, accelerometer, and 4x "meat sphere sensors" (as translated by Google) which should allow the wee bot to hone in on the jugular jewels of any unscrupulous referees. Due to hit North America and places beyond this Fall for about ¥600,000 or $4,853.

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[Bort Simpson Posted Jul 9th 2007 5:40AM]

See Darth Spot Run. See Darth Spot Kick.

See Darth Spot use Force on soccer ball.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2007 5:56AM]

I, for one, welcome our canine overlords. So long as they don't take too much interest in my meat spheres!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2007 6:26AM]

If its after your meat spheres I wouldn't go covering your jugular!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2007 8:18AM]

Hopefully the production model will be a little...shinier?

The Aibo is definitely prettier, if not smarter.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2007 8:59AM]

noice! And I love the BJ & the Bear insert! Man, I used to love that show. Even had the toys. w00t! This is why I love Engadget. They're down with the mad pop-culture, yeah? :)

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2007 9:43AM]

Love the tail! Is that a USB Drive?