My work this summer was in two parts.
First I designed and built three companion robot designed to be used in a therapeutic setting to comfort people that are living in animal-free environments. These robots were built with the intention of testing them with residents at Hampshire College. This is a project that I have been working on for sometime now and had built three robots prior to this summer.
Second I worked with an AIBO and learned to program it to perform various behaviors to gain further programming experience and to explore the capabilities of the AIBO.