Not just with the deaths of our dog robots, we feel loss whenever we take stock of how we and our world are changing. Take the case of nearly every single Chine

Not just with the deaths of our dog robots, we feel loss whenever we take stock of how we and our world are changing. Take the case of nearly every single Chinese person still alive today. China has went from a large rural country with sprawling country-sides, rice paddies, dragonflies, etc., to a massive concrete jungle in the clouds (it's smog, really). So to anyone who grew up there, there is no "going home", seeing one's old room, or musing how everything looks so much smaller (and dingier) now. In the shadow of change, and especially rapid change, is always the shadow of death. That melodrama aside, it's too bad aibos weren't open sourced considering Sony is abandoning it, if it were, it might be possible for some crafty Frankenstein engineer to repair them indefinitely with spare parts. Robo dogs should be all means be able to outlast their real counterparts.