Design[edit]
A friend of Doi's, the erotic artist Hajime Sorayama, was enlisted to create the initial designs for the AIBO's body.[12] Those designs are now part of the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art[14] and the Smithsonian Institution. The first generation AIBO design won Japan's prestigious "Good Design Award, Grand Prize"[15] and a special Intelligent Design award in the 2000 German Red Dot awards.[16]
Later models of AIBOs were designed jointly with prestigious Japanese designers, and continued to gain design awards. The ERS-210 design was inspired by lion cubs. The bodies of the "ERS-3x" series (Latte and Macaron, the round-headed AIBOs released in 2001) were designed by visual artist Katsura Moshino winning the "Good Design Award"[17] The sleek and futuristic, space-exploration inspired body of the "ERS-220" was designed by Shoji Kawamori.[18] winning the "Good Design Award"[19] and a "Design for Asia" award.[20] The ERS-7 Also won a "Good Design Award".[21]