AIBO lives! Meet BJ, without the Sony bugbear

by Thomas Ricker posted Jul 9th 2007 at 5:32AM

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.

[Via Impress]

Filed under: Robots

Tags: aibo, axi, bj, japan, kondo, robocup

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zfurie @ Jul 9th 2007 5:40AM

See Darth Spot Run. See Darth Spot Kick.

See Darth Spot use Force on soccer ball.

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Mike @ 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!

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PJK @ Jul 9th 2007 6:26AM

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

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strider_mt2k @ Jul 9th 2007 8:18AM

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

The Aibo is definitely prettier, if not smarter.

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Asher69 @ 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? :)

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Jean @ Jul 9th 2007 9:43AM

Love the tail! Is that a USB Drive?

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