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Robot-napping

A colleague recently showed me an Aibo automatically posting images to the web. Its impressive in a 5-second-oh-gosh-sort-of-way. Its easy to imagine remotely directing your home based Aibo to check on something in the home whilst you are at work for example.

When will be the first reported instance of an Aibo being robot-napped?
What if the Aibo was replaced with a hacked clone and reported what it sensed in real time to its new masters?
Would the Aibos owner notice that it has been replaced?
Has it happened already?

Hmm, would the owners be happy to have a replacement Aibo using a backup of the originals software?

The Sony Aibo guys have probably spent years thinking through these issues. My assumption is that sooner or later pretty much everything is hackable, and Aibo has been a target for hacks since day one.

(aibo photo randomly picked from aibo pool on flickr)

Writing from Tokyo | May 4, 2005 | Permalink