Editing AIBO (section)

===Aperios and Open-R===
Aperios is Sony's Proprietary Real-Time Operating system, used in all AIBOs, QRIO and some other consumer devices. Aperios OS was intended to be widely deployed, using real-time capabilities to handle multiple audio and visual data streams concurrently.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/sony_pr.html |title=Wired 7.11: Sony's Plan for World Recreation |magazine=Wired |access-date=2013-03-10|last1=Sheff |first1=David }}</ref> The operating system was not widely adopted, and by 2003 Sony had stopped active development with COO Kunitake Ando commenting "Aperios was an operating system of a pre-Internet age and we decided that it isn't adequate for the future".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eetimes.com/electronics-news/4137118/Linux-and-TV-called-key-to-broadband-tsunami |title=Linux and TV called key to broadband tsunami |date=9 January 2003 |publisher=Eetimes.com |access-date=2013-03-10}}</ref>

The OPEN-R architecture is specific to entertainment robots. The architecture involves the use of modular hardware components, such as appendages that can be easily removed and replaced to change the shape and function of the robots, and modular software components that can be interchanged to change their behavior and movement patterns. AIBO's creator, Doi, called OPEN-R the "masterpiece" of the AIBO development project, arguing it would minimize the need for programming individual movements or responses, and its "open" nature would encourage a global community of robot specialists and programmers to add capability.<ref name="This Cute Little Pet Is a Robot"/>