I saw this in the AAAI alert message. Apparently, Sony is experimenting with child-like learning with the Aibo's:
Curious Aibo Article (http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/050614aibo/)
Another article on same topic (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7561)
They're doing this with the current ERS-7 models.