Posted by axxxr
No official confirmation from sony yet but this was posted up on their site..
Posted by EastCoastStar
noooooo! i was planning on getting the newest one. oh damn.
the qrio or however its spelled stopped too it says.
i wonder why
Posted by axxxr
well the qrio was never mass produced anyway....the qrio had to be the best robot ive ever seen,shame its never going to be made now!
Well since they ceased production of the Qualia line i presume their isn't much market demand for high end consumer products.
I don't think many people would have paid £10,000 ($20,000) for the qrio anyway.
Posted by EastCoastStar
if i won the lottery i would
Posted by Johnex
Hell yeah east! I would have too.
Posted by axxxr
Has anyone here seen the qrio in action?...its truly amazing is all im going to say...i went to a stuff live last year and they had a couple of qrios there,i was just amazed,the aibo is just a toy in comparison.
Posted by EastCoastStar
i would love to see one in real life!
oneday everyone is going to have something like that in their house
Posted by axxxr
yeh one day,hopefully in the very very near future we will all have these in our homes....
check out these cool Vids of the qrio in action.
Posted by gardar
damn, I was going to get one aibo...
Posted by axxxr
Im sure you'll still be able to get one,aibo's are quite widely available.
Posted by Vein
How much do Aibos average at then? Prepare to shock me
Posted by axxxr
A new one is around £1200 but you can pick up one in decent nick for about £700
Posted by gardar
maby I can get a puppy from a aibo owner
Posted by Vein
Wow, still alot. Impressive though I must admit.
Posted by axxxr
aibo's are still the most decent robots we can get for the home.
Posted by axxxr
French AIBO owners are deeply saddened by this horrible news, and they have started this petition:
Following the brutal advertisement of Sony to stop the developments for Aibo and Qrio, its two general public robots, the signatories want to express by this petition to the Sony group their surprise and their very great disappointment. We wish this decision provisional and hope that the Aibo project does not remain without a future.
Indeed, beyond the ludic aspect of this robotic dog, Aibo is a tremendous dream carrying future, a symbol which shows that robots can be more than science-fiction concepts or simple tools. Aibo is conceived to be attaching and Sony, through this machine, concretized the dream to see machines and humans to cohabit; it showed that human engineering can make beautiful things at one time when many doubt science and progress. Through this petition we also say no to the diktat of finance which chokes the dream with the profit of some and we ask Sony to continue the Aibo adventure and to reconsider his decision.