Welcome Home

You can teach aibo to welcome you when you get home from a regular activity. You can train aibo to meet you at a specific time/place when you return home.

How to teach aibo

Step1
Take aibo to location that you would like to be welcomed home at. Tell aibo, "welcome home here," several times. Repetition will increase learning. When you see aibo start sniffing the floor, it is a signal aibo is remembering the location.
Step2
Once you see aibo wave make sure to continue to praise aibo by petting and continue to say, "welcome home here". Using the My aibo app, check your map and see if the door icon is displayed in that location. Once it is shown, it is successful. To confirm the location, please say, "go home" to aibo. If aibo goes to that location and waits, training has been successful.
Step3
When you leave home, say, see you later, then pet aibo. When you return home, say, I'm home, then pet aibo. aibo will eventually remember this location/time so when you arrival time is getting close, aibo will go to the welcome home place and be ready for your arrival!
Tips for teaching
  • If you carry aibo to the place you want it to remember, please talk to aibo after aibo has stood up.
  • If the door icon displayed on the map has a question mark (?), aibo is in process of remembering the place for welcome home. If you repeat steps 1 to 3 several times, the question mark will disappear.


Illustration explained

Things to note
  • If you are using a place with a step, such as a front door, as a welcome home location, there is risk of falling.
  • If you want to change the welcome home location, tell aibo, "welcome home place," at the new location. aibo will remember this new location after repetition.
  • aibo loves to explore rooms. When the environment is changed due to a new room or redecoration, the map of the room is remembered but sometimes the welcome home place is lost. If that happens, you will need to start process again.