{"id":97088,"date":"2016-06-29T14:55:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T12:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=97088"},"modified":"2016-06-29T14:56:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T12:56:47","slug":"sony-is-making-a-robot-capable-of-an-emotional-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/97088-sony-is-making-a-robot-capable-of-an-emotional-bond","title":{"rendered":"Sony is making a robot capable of an emotional bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following Sony&#8217;s corporate strategy meeting this morning on 29 June, the Japanese company announced that it would be making a robot capable of forming an emotional bond, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/6\/29\/12057408\/sony-robot-emotion-vr-sensors\" target=\"_blank\">The Verge<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Kaz Hirai confirmed that a new robot-focused division had been launched in April and that plans were already underway for an official business launch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sony will seek to propose new business models that integrate hardware and services to provide emotionally compelling experiences,&#8221; the company says in notes from the presentation.<\/p>\n<p>This is a goal Sony arguably already achieved with the launch of its <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AIBO\">AIBO dogs<\/a> <\/strong>as far back as 1998.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How much uncapped ADSL data your ISP can give you before it makes a loss\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/96727-how-much-uncapped-adsl-data-your-isp-can-give-you-before-it-makes-a-loss.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How much uncapped ADSL data your ISP can give you before it makes a loss<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Entire Polaris graphics card lineup revealed including Radeon RX 490\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/96947-entire-polaris-graphics-card-lineup-revealed-including-radeon-rx-490.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Entire Polaris graphics card lineup revealed including Radeon RX 490<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Where are DStv\u2019s gaming and tech channels?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/95921-where-are-dstvs-gaming-and-tech-channels.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Where are DStv\u2019s gaming and tech channels?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has announced that it will be making a robot capable of forming an emotional bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":97094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,11681],"tags":[31,19962,1853,3345,71],"class_list":["post-97088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-emotion-kaz-hirai","tag-playstation4","tag-robots","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}