Sony's new "aibo" launched for the first time in 12 years
January 11, 2018, Tokyo, Japan - Japanese electronics giant Sony executive officer Izumi Kawanishi picks up Sony's robot dog "Aibo ERS-1000" from a cocoon shaped case at Aibo's launching ceremony at Sony headquarters in Tokyo on Thursday, January 11, 2018. Cloud based artificial intelligence (AI) enables the robot dog to react when spoken to and learn new behavior. (Photo by Yoshio Tsunoda/AFLO) LWX -ytd-