Sony bestows curiosity to the AIBO

What we have done is give Aibo an ability to have its learning defined by the quality of learning. It can learn the consequence of one thing, but if this seems to lead nowhere, it becomes bored and looks for something else to learn. So it’s learning to classify its sensory space and progressively structure that space. It doesn’t like the thing that’s easy so much as wants to learn the thing that’s hard. The metabrain is the key.

The new learning AIBOs are not available commercially but it’s certainly and interesting approach.