Many techie types of a certain age and early adopter attitude will remember the AIBO, Sony’s robotic entertainment dog, first unleashed onto the public back in 1999, seeing a handful of iterations and upgrades until, in 2006, the prohibitive cost saw Sony put AIBO to sleep for good.
What many techie types of a certain age and early adopter attitude will probably not remember is the Sony QRIO, a bipedal ‘humanoid’ robot that Sony took to the prototype stage and which, one terrifying day at a Sony press conference in a hotel conference room in Paris, I witnessed ‘coming at me’ with all the unstoppable, unrelenting lack of mercy of a two-foot-tall Terminator.
