Our Robots

Our Robots are SONY ERS-210 AIBO robots. They are sophisticaed robots with a number of useful sensors for research including a camera for vision, touch senses for communication.

The AIBO has a MIPS CPU with a clock cycle of 192 MHz and a 32megabyte main memory. It is equipped with an array of touch sensors, on positions such as the head, back, chin and paws. The AIBO’s vision system is driven by a single CMOS camera, while there is also an infrared range finder. All four legs, as well as the head, have three degrees of freedom allowing for a large range of motion. Sony’s freely available OPEN-R software development kit provides a set of application programming interface library files and related tools that allow both querying and control of the AIBO’s range of hardware through C++ code.

The ERS-210 has wireless LAN capabilities that allow inspection of the robot’s internal state, multi-agent research, and access to the vast resources of the Internet.