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To: StanX Long who wrote (63610)	5/10/2002 12:29:18 AM
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Sony opens robot architecture to aid development By Yoshiko Hara EE Times May 9, 2002 (5:03 p.m. EST) eetimes.com TOKYO — Sony Corp. has promised to disclose the software specifications of its Open-R Architecture for Aibo robots to provide an open development environment for robotics research, making Aibo the hardware platform. The Open-R Software Development Kit (SDK) will be available at Sony's Aibo Web site starting June 3, and will be offered free of charge on condition that the results be used only for non-commercial purposes. Sony will continue to request a license contract for those who intend to sell commercial software based on the Open-R architecture. Open-R, which Sony proposed as an architecture for entertainment robots in 1998, features modularized hardware and software. Besides the animal-like Aibo, Sony's humanoid SDR series of robots is also built on the architecture. The Open-R SDK, however, will support only the lion-type Aibo (ERS-210) and the more-recent mechanical Aibo with wireless LAN capability (ERS-220), since a PC and Aibo have to communicate through a wireless LAN for debugging. Sony has already opened the