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.
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
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
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
Feeling Terrain Before Crossing: World Models for Off-Road Navigation
E-In Son, Dong-Wook Kim, Ji-Hoon Hwang +4 more
2026
SurgDepth: Test-Time Adaptation of Depth Foundation Models for Surgical Scene Understanding.
Wang S, Xue J, Zhong X +5 more
IEEE transactions on medical imaging · 2026
How robot dogs see the unseeable: Improving visual interpretability via peering for exploratory robots.
Bimber O, von Ellenrieder KD, Haller M +6 more
Science robotics · 2026
[Research on manipulation acquisition and operational standardization assessment of dynamic moxibustion based on computer vision technology].
Miao X, Chen Y, Wang S +3 more
Zhongguo zhen jiu = Chinese acupuncture & moxibustion · 2026
CoralscapesV2: Panoptic and Fine-Grained Visual Scene Understanding in Coral Reefs
Jonathan Sauder, Thomas Ruckli, Gabrielė Strodomskytė +17 more
2026