11.   Which raises the obvious question of how a robot dog like Aibo would stack up against a real dog.

12.   Would it be true for robot dogs, too?

13.   Our hero can blast into outer space, construct a sci-fi-era robot dog and breed a girl-eating plant.

14.   Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp. will start selling a robot dog called AIBO in early July.

15.   Sony says the robot dog was designed for no other purpose than fun.

16.   The AIBO family of robot dogs can recognise simple verbal commands and respond to the name they are given as well as the name of their owner.