Well wouldn't you
know it, not even a day after receiving what's possibly the
biggest validation of
robotic companions since Petster saved little Timmy from a burning barn back in '86, it looks like news is surfacing
that in Sony's Q305 fiscal reports they have intentions and supposedly already ceased developing
AIBO and
QRIO,
Engadget's most beloved of all canine and humanoid robots, respectively. At the risk of sounding terribly insensitive,
somehow the prospect of AIBO and QRIO dying actually makes us more heartsick than the news of the 10,000 some-odd jobs
Stringer cut reorganizing the electronics giant. Sony, say it ain't so, say it ain't so!
P.S. -When Sony
America wakes up this morning we'll be placing some calls.
[Via
Akihabara
News]
