SONY Dream Robot


Website Navigation: QRIO salutes you! Isn't he just fantastic!? You got to love that SONY design. The last of the QRIO, the late 2005 model, had improved wrists and hands making it easier for them to pick up objects more freely. Here is QRIO is on his Energy Station. Designed like the AIBO ERS-7 model's one, although a lot bigger than AIBOs and is shaped more like a 'seat'. A little scary, no? This is one of the first ever SDR prototypes for QRIO and gave SONY the idea to carry out what we know today as QRIO! This is SDR-3X, the 2nd main prototype for QRIO. He looks a little more friendly now doesn't he? Newest QRIO model. QRIO's new whrist and hand. ...QRIO wishes SONY would bring him back!	QRIO (SDR) SONY Dream Robot. QRIO ("Quest for cuRIOsity", originally named SONY Dream Robot or SDR for short) was to be a bipedal humanoid entertainment robot marketed and sold by SONY to follow up on the success of AIBO. QRIO stood approximately 0.6 m (2 feet) tall and weighed 7.3 kg (16 pounds). QRIO's slogan was "Makes life fun, makes you happy!" On January 26, 2006, on the same day as it announced its discontinuation of AIBO and other SONY products, SONY announced that it would stop development of QRIO. Before it was cancelled, QRIO was reported to be going through numerous development, testing and scalability phases, with the intent of becoming commercially available within four years... Like AIBO, QRIO was capable of voice and face recognition, making it able to remember people as well as their likes and dislikes. There was a video on QRIO's official website shows it speaking with several children. QRIO can run at 23 cm/s, and is credited in Guinness World Records (2005 edition) as being the first (and fastest) bipedal robot capable of running (which it defines as moving while both legs are off the ground at the same time). The 4th generation QRIO's internal battery lasts around 1 hour. The QRIO prototypes were developed and manufactured by SONY Intelligence Dynamics Laboratory, Inc. The number of these prototypes in existence is unknown. Up to ten QRIO have been seen performing a dance routine together; this was confirmed by a SONY representative at the Museum of Science in Boston, MA on January 22, 2006. Many videos of this can be found on the internet. Four fourth-generation QRIO prototype robots were featured dancing in the 'Hell Yes' music video by recording artist Beck. It took programmers three weeks to program their choreography. These prototypes used in the video are more common as you see in most pictures of QRIO and lacked the new third camera in the center of the forehead and the improved hands and wrists which were added to later Q4 2005 prototypes as seen below. The 4Q 2005/early 2006 5th gen SONY QRIO (SDR) is shown above; no one knows how many of these prototypes exist in the world due to these being the last ones designed before SONY cancelled the research and devolvement of QRIO and AIBO. I do wish I could have one (haha, yeah right!) or at least get to see one in action one day! ~ Shanie. Pictures: Above: Picture of 4th Gen QRIO's behind. Above: What a impressive QRIO display cabnet! Above: Look! A 4th Gen QRIO is playing golf! I bet he scored a hole-in-one! :)
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QRIO (SDR) SONY Dream Robot.

QRIO ("Quest for cuRIOsity", originally named SONY Dream Robot or SDR for short) was to be a bipedal humanoid entertainment robot marketed and sold by SONY to follow up on the success of AIBO.

QRIO stood approximately 0.6 m (2 feet) tall and weighed 7.3 kg (16 pounds). QRIO's slogan was "Makes life fun, makes you happy!"

On January 26, 2006, on the same day as it announced its discontinuation of AIBO and other SONY products, SONY announced that it would stop development of QRIO. Before it was cancelled, QRIO was reported to be going through numerous development, testing and scalability phases, with the intent of becoming commercially available within four years...

Like AIBO, QRIO was capable of voice and face recognition, making it able to remember people as well as their likes and dislikes. There was a video on QRIO's official website shows it speaking with several children. QRIO can run at 23 cm/s, and is credited in Guinness World Records (2005 edition) as being the first (and fastest) bipedal robot capable of running (which it defines as moving while both legs are off the ground at the same time). The 4th generation QRIO's internal battery lasts around 1 hour.

The QRIO prototypes were developed and manufactured by SONY Intelligence Dynamics Laboratory, Inc. The number of these prototypes in existence is unknown. Up to ten QRIO have been seen performing a dance routine together; this was confirmed by a SONY representative at the Museum of Science in Boston, MA on January 22, 2006. Many videos of this can be found on the internet.

Four fourth-generation QRIO prototype robots were featured dancing in the 'Hell Yes' music video by recording artist Beck. It took programmers three weeks to program their choreography. These prototypes used in the video are more common as you see in most pictures of QRIO and lacked the new third camera in the center of the forehead and the improved hands and wrists which were added to later Q4 2005 prototypes as seen below.

The 4Q 2005/early 2006 5th gen SONY QRIO (SDR) is shown above; no one knows how many of these prototypes exist in the world due to these being the last ones designed before SONY cancelled the research and devolvement of QRIO and AIBO. I do wish I could have one (haha, yeah right!) or at least get to see one in action one day!

~ Shanie.

Pictures:

Above: Picture of 4th Gen QRIO's behind.

Above: What a impressive QRIO display cabnet!

Above: Look! A 4th Gen QRIO is playing golf! I bet he scored a hole-in-one! :)