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Version History: Aibo

aired Nov 15, 2026 · 75.0m
Signal
85.4/ 100
Essential
confidence 0.99
Orig57.5
Actn100.0
Dens99.0
Dpth91.0
Clty65.3
Summary

Hey, it's your friend David Pierce here. The first episode of the season is about the Sony AIBO, one of the original and still frankly most impressive robot pets we've ever had.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, it's, think, including: Just wanted to let you know that Version History, our show about the best and worst and weirdest and most important gadgets in tech history, is back.

Key takeaways
  1. 01And it started by building a dog
  2. 02I did not grow up with robot pets, but I did build robots in high school
  3. 03he makes me feel calm after what was a horrible commute getting here today i look at gino and all of a sudden my uh rage at the world has disappeared there is something sort of imm
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