Sony’s Aibo robot dog is getting a new colorway and a price hike. The new Aibo Kinako Edition is the first to feature a two-tone finish on its face and will include two new eye color options.

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Aibo (pronounced "eye-bo") is a reboot of the robot dog Sony first introduced in 1999 and laid to rest in 2006 in a tragic round of corporate cost-cutting.