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Oct 15, 2026

Nicolas BabinGUEST
2:13
And over 30 years later ...
Nicolas BabinGUEST
2:15
I mean, we started to work on it in 1993 with Sony, and so over, over 30 years later, uh, we can see that, you know, Aibo, which was the name of the robot dog, but we also had a humanoid robot called QRIO.
Nicolas BabinGUEST
2:27
Quest for Curiosity was actually the, uh, the real name of that robot.
Nicolas BabinGUEST
2:32
Actually, it's, it's, has helped other companies to improve their humanoid robots.

7 MINS LATER

Nicolas BabinGUEST
9:15
That I, I can tell you about that because Sony, obviously we sold, uh, Aibo the, the robot dog, as you said, the talking dog, which was around €2,000 and went down.
Nicolas BabinGUEST
9:25
We had even a, a version of the, of that robot that costed only n- only €900 over the course of six years when we sold the, the robots.
Nicolas BabinGUEST
9:36
But we had, as I mentioned, a humanoid robot called QRIO, which we could not sell because the price was, as our founder said, "It's gonna be the price of a very, very expensive car." So you're talking-
Nat SchoolerHOST
9:48
Ah, uh-huh, uh-huh

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