Sony have announced that they are discontinuing their range of AIBO Entertainment Robots from March of this year, with sales of the six-year-old £1500 electronic pets ending as soon as current stocks run out.


Sony Aibo


In a message on the official Aibo website owners are notified of the disappointing news and told that production of Aibo robots will end in March 2006, with only remaining stocks being available to buy before all sales dry up.

Thankfully owners will be able to get their poorly pooches fixed with Sony promising certain accessories such as the batterypack will be available from retailers after April 2006, and once stocks are depleted they will "continue to be available from the AIBO Clinic customer support centre".

However all support for Aibo is set to come to an end in 2013 when the service and spare part availability will be "terminated" as the latest 7-series model reaches the end of its support lifecycle.