🔬 Corporate#33 Tokyo, Japan· Est. 1999
Sony — AI & Robotics (Aibo)
Pioneer of companion and entertainment robotics. Sony's Aibo robot dog (launched 1999, relaunched 2018) demonstrated that people form emotional bonds with robots — a foundational insight for the service robot industry.
companion robotsemotion AIentertainment robotscomputer vision
Notable achievements
Aibo robot dog (1999), QRIO humanoid (first running humanoid), ERS-series Aibo with deep learning personality, 150,000+ Aibo units sold.
Notable work
Aibo ERS-1000QRIO running humanoid
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
PERCEPTION
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Integrating computer vision and Kalman filter in an assistive system for visually impaired individuals to predict hand-object interaction
Amirmohammad Barsalani, Arman Mardani, Hamidreza Daniali
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
PERCEPTION
PhenoRob-P: An autonomous robotic system for high-throughput phenotyping of potted plants.
Shao Y, He Y, Fang Y +4 more
Plant phenomics (Washington, D.C.) · 2026
LOCOMOTION
Open access
Ordinal Neural Collapse as a Representation Prior for Visual Navigation
E-In Son, Jung-Taak Kim, Seung-Woo Seo
2026
SURGICAL
Automated Assessment of Surgical Quality in Distal Gastrectomy: Development of a Novel Computer Vision Model Based on the Critical View of Quality (CVQ).
Kim J, Asselmann D, Wolf T +5 more
Annals of surgery · 2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
SeeTraceAct: Visibility-Aware Latent Planning from Cross-Embodiment Demonstration Videos
Jaehyeon Son, Junhyun Kim, Kyle Kam +7 more
2026