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The company now forms part of the Japanese firm's robotics division, which creates humanoid robots such as Pepper, NAO and the 140cm tall Romeo.
In June, it put $118 million into SoftBank's robotics division, which makes "personal robot" Pepper, while Ginko Ventures, its European investment arm, led a $25 million round in French IoT platform developer Actility.
After the PC news, 8K TVs and Bixby-sporting washing machines, the company announced "one more thing," handing over a few brief moments to announce a robotics division, three new consumer and retail robots and a wearable exoskeleton.
Sony will also adopt Acutronic's Hardware Robot Operating System (H-ROS), for use in its own robotics division, the company says.
Cincinnati Milacron, Inc., the other major American hydraulic-arm manufacturer, sold its robotics division in 1990 to the Swedish firm of Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.
Though the Aibo was very popular - 150,000 were sold - it never went on sale in the UK, and the robotics division only produced about $40m to $80m revenue.
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By the late 1980s Japan led by the robotics divisions of Fanuc Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Ltd., Mitsubishi Group, and Honda Motor Company, Ltd. was the world leader in the manufacture and use of industrial robots.
Pratt declined to comment on a media report earlier this month that Toyota is in talks with Google's parent company Alphabet to acquire Boston Dynamics and Schafts, both of which are robotics divisions of the technology company.
The three companies announced a partnership on developing robotic business named Pepper in June 2015, where Foxconn and Alibaba each invested JYP14.5 billion ($130 million) in SoftBank's robotic division and each controls 20% of stake.
"Every soldier is a sensor," said Scott D. Myers, the president of the robotic systems division at General Dynamics and vice president of its Eagle Enterprises subsidiary, which is bidding on the modernization of equipment for foot soldiers.
Sami Atiya is a member of the Group Executive Committee of ABB and president of ABB's Robotics and Motion division, which is one of the world's top manufacturers of industrial robotics, with over 300,000 robots installed worldwide.
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