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ERS-7 AIBO® Entertainment Robot ERS-7/W
Includes AIBO®, software, energy station, battery, pink ball, and AIBOne
Built-in wireless LAN connectivity
Understands 100+ words/phrases
Recognizes owner’s face and voice
Tactile touch sensors
Self-charges on its charging station
Provides remote monitoring (jpeg format)
Raise from a puppy or an adult
Autonomously plays with its bone and ball
Illume-Face provides a multitude of facial expressions
Overview
AIBO® is Sony's Entertainment Robot. The name AIBO® is derived form the words "A.I." (Artificial Intelligence), and roBOt. Also, in Japanese, "aibo" means "companion" or "pal".

The ERS-7 is the latest AIBO®, a newly-developed, highly evolved, comprehensive product offering that provides the greatest degree of autonomous behavior and functionality yet to be achieved by Sony robotic engineers. It is supplied with a full range of accessories that allows for both the joys of raising a robotic pet alternative, as well as the satisfaction of useful functionality.

Product enhancement has especially been achieved in the areas of design, visual pattern recognition, organic touch-sensor technology, wireless LAN connectivity, sound quality, and motor/gear noise reduction.

In autonomous mode, the ERS-7 walks more fluidly, plays soccer with its Pink Ball, plays with its AIBOne, sits, lies down, rights itself, and even self-charges. The ERS-7 also uses its newly developed Illume-Face, tail, ears, lights, and MIDI sounds to express a wide variety of emotions (happiness, sadness, fear, dislike, surprise, anger) and instincts (play, search, hunger, sleep), to entertain you. The ERS-7 also now pays special attention to its owner thanks to new Owner’s Face and Voice Recognition technology.

Using your PC and wireless network (IEEE 802.11b), you can remotely control the ERS-7. You can remotely view pictures the ERS-7 takes and send e-mail commands to have the ERS-7 play pre-recorded messages and songs to others at home. (*)

* This application requires both a broadband Internet connection and a wireless router or access point with IEEE 802.11b connectivity.
Features
• This product includes ERS-7 robot with wireless LAN (2.4 GHz IEEE 802.11b) installed, “AIBO MIND” 32MB Memory Stick software, Energy Station, Battery (ERA-7B1), AC adapter, AIBOne, Pink Ball, 15 AIBO Cards, and WLAN Manager CD-ROM software.

• With supplied AIBO MIND autonomous software, you can immediately interact with a mature ERS-7 or you can also reset it to its puppy stage. (You can reset to puppy and adult stages as many times as you want.)

• ERS-7 understands and responds to 100+ words and phrases.

• Various autonomous behaviors based on recognition of owner’s face and voice.

• With newly developed Visual Pattern Recognition technology, ERS-7 has improved self-charging capability (24/7 operation) and interacts with its 15 AIBO Cards. AIBO Cards (credit card size) are an entertaining tool that allows you to issue commands, change ERS-7’s settings, modes, etc.

• Wireless LAN capability allows you to view up to 20 pictures ERS-7 has taken from your PC. Photos are JPEG format (416 x 320).

• By sending e-mail commands to ERS-7, it can take pictures on command or at customized intervals and automatically e-mail them back to you. Photo is in 208 x 160 pixels jpeg format when it is sent.

• Send e-mail commands to ERS-7 and have it play pre-recorded messages or songs to others at home.

• ERS-7 loves its new AIBOne (supplied plastic bone), and can bring it to you on command. Of course, it loves its supplied Pink Ball, too.

• 45 multi-color LEDs better allow ERS-7 to express its emotions and what it is thinking. In addition, these LEDs indicate the status and function of ERS-7. For example, you can easily recognize the wireless LAN connection status or guide yourself through ERS-7’s Clinic Mode. Finally, Illume-Face (using 24 of these LEDs) provides a completely new way for ERS-7 to show when it is happy, sad, angry, surprised, etc.

• Newly developed tactile touch sensors on the back, head, and chin allow for more organic interaction, and also contribute to ERS-7’s growth development. ERS-7 especially enjoys being petted under its chin.

• PC-based AIBO Custom Manager software (available soon, sold separately) will allow you to customize your ERS-7. For example, the start-up sound can be changed and game modes can be added.
Specifications
• LED Lights
Face (Illume-Face) : 24 LEDs (12 white, 4 red, 4 blue, 4 green)
Ear : 2 3-color LEDs
Wireless Status : 1 blue LED
Back Sensor : 16 LEDs (8 white, 3 blue, 2 orange, 3 red)

• Movable Parts
Head : 3 degrees of freedom (DOF)
Mouth : 1 DOF
Leg : 3 OF X 4 legs
Ear : 1 DOF X 2 ears
Tail : 2 DOF
Total : 20 degrees of freedom

• CPU
576 MHz 64 bit RISC processor

• Internal main Memory
64MB

• Video and Image Input
350,000 CMOS image sensor

• Audio Input
Stereo microphones in its ears

• Audio Output
Speaker on its chest

• MIDI
64 chords

• Internal Sensors
Distance sensor (in its snout and on its chest)
Head touch sensor
Back touch sensors
Chin sensor
Paw sensors
Acceleration sensor
Vibration sensor

• Built-in Wireless LAN
Standard : IEEE 802.11b/802.11
Frequency rate : IEEE 802.11b
Protocol : TCP/IP
Encryption : Wep
Range : up to 300 feet

• Operating Time
Approximately 1.5 hours

• Battery Charging Time
Approximately 2 hours

• ERS-7 Dimension and Weight
7.1 x 10.9 x 12.5 inches (Width x Height x Depth) and 3.5 lbs

• Package Dimension and Weight
18 x 11 x 17 (Width x Height x Depth) and 11.2 lbs

• Energy Station with LCD indicator Dimension and Weight
15.5 X 3.6 X 2.6 inches (Width X Height X Depth) and 0.5 Ibs

• Color of ERS-7
White








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Sun - October 26, 2003 at 07:47 PM        

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