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Sony

JapanFounded 1946

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Sony is a robotics company founded 1946, based in Japan, developing 1 robot primarily in the Companion category.

CAPITAL & EVIDENCE

Sony has no confirmed funding round on file and has 1 deployment on record, none maker-verified.

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1named customer · 1 tied to a specific robot

none maker-verified · on 1 robot

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Creative entertainment and technology company behind aibo

Sony makes Aibo, a robotic dog companion sold through its aibo product site and Sony’s electronics store. Sony’s current ERS-1000 aibo is described as a robotic puppy powered by AI, with lifelike expressions and movement; the brand targets consumers rather than industrial buyers.

Active products

1

RoboIndex

71.18

RoboScore 69.33 + Momentum 1.85

Price range

$3.2K

1 of 1 priced

Company facts

HQ
Tokyo, Japan
Founded
1946 · 80 yrs

RoboScore

Products 65%73Depth 5%0Activity49Attention100Readiness—Evidence 30%73
71.18RoboIndexFocused specialist

69.33 RoboScore + 1.85 Momentum· Very strong evidence

Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.

5 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated

Milestones

  1. Sony released the AI-equipped new aibo domestic robot dog.

  2. Sony unveiled the original Aibo robotic dog.

Press coverage

In the news

7 events

+1.85momentumof 15 max

[Science Video] University of Electro-Communications and Sony robot MOFU uses lifelike motion

Why Sony has been in the news, across 6 outlets — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.

Public loss record

Noneon file for SonyRegister read, nothing on file

Japanese workplace accidents reach the labour ministry and product incidents reach NITE. We read both, and they are small files.

How this record was collected, register by register

Active products by Sony

1 shown
#CategoryKey specs
1
AiboCompanionRuntime 2 hr$3.2K201872.9

Where will these robots operate? Often the same as your country — add more for multi-country deployments.

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