Sony ERS-7M2 - Manual (Page 87)

Raising the AIBO
®
Enter
tainment
Robot
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Learning and acquiring skills
The AIBO
®
Entertainment Robot learns from you and its surroundings, becoming capable of
many different activities. If the AIBO robot paces back and forth, show it its AIBOne toy or pink
ball. It will chase after the AIBOne toy or pink ball, becoming capable of walking longer distances.
By praising the AIBO robot, you give it encouragement. If you
praise it when it kicks the pink ball well, it practices hard to
please you, becoming quite skilled in playing with the pink ball.
On the other hand, if you don’t praise its efforts, the AIBO robot
may lose interest in the pink ball.
You can judge the degree of the AIBO robot’s development from how it carries the AIBOne
toy, the number of different ways in which it kicks the pink ball, and the distance it is able to
walk around. When it shows tricks that are surprising, and walks longer distances, you will
know that the AIBO robot has matured.
You can also check the degree of the AIBO robot’s development directly.
Try asking it, “What’s your AIBOne skill level?”, “What’s your pink ball skill level?”, or
“What’s your walking skill level?”.
The AIBO robot will tell you how it’s doing by indicating its progress with its face lights.
Once it has mastered these skills... your AIBO robot is a proud grown-up!
The more white face lights appear, the higher the AIBO robot’s skill level.
The face lights can show a variety of expressions. When the AIBO robot achieves a higher
skill level, it will show you through subtle different expressions.