Leading Japan's best-known consumer electronics company into the new world of "convergence" is a very small, very un-Japanese research lab based on an illustrious model: Xerox PARC.
Incorporated in Aibo, the cute, silver-toned pet robot dog that went on sale June 1, was much that resonated with the history of its maker, Japan's Sony Corporation.
For instance, the novel coupling of "entertainment" and "robot" recalled the pairing of "personal" and "stereo" in the Sony Walkman two decades earlier.
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