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Grand Prize
AIBO (ERS-110)
Installation
Artist : Tadashi OTSUKI [Sony Corporation Business Preparations Office Head Development Team Representative] Hajime Sorayama [Cooperator of Design]
(Japan)
Tadashi OTSUKI
Born in 1948 in Kyoto. Graduated from the Shizuoka University Engineering program. Entered the Sony Corporation in April 1972. Worked in color television development, digital audio research, technological development and product development, magneto-optical disk technological development, product development and business development. He later moved to the NAMCO LTD., , where he was in charge of 3D Computer Graphics Research and Development. In 1997, he returned to Sony to oversee the development of entertainment robots and related businesses.
The most interesting feature of "AIBO the Entertainment Robot" is that it is a unique four footed robot that was not designed for industrial use, but for home entertainment use only.
In fact, it is the only one of it's kind. AIBO has the ability to learn from it's environment based on emotional and instinctual models and it's reactions change dependent upon human interaction.
The eighteen motors give AIBO total freedom of movement.
In fact, it's hard to imagine, from it's sharp mechanical appearance, the charming movements that it can make.
The free-standing Entertainment Robot AIBO brings together Japan's vaunted high-tech electronics, robotics, software, and artificial intelligence into a single package that features both a charming character design and lively entertainment.
AIBO is a work that in one fell swoop opens up an entirely new area of creativity and creates a new entertainment.
It is a work that makes us sense the dawn of the new millennium.
