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Keepon Keepin’ On

How effing awesome is this thing? Here’s a little more about Keepon, taken from beatbots.org:

We are currently developing and studying dance-oriented nonverbal play between children and the robot Keepon, built by Hideki Kozima. Keepon is a small creature-like robot with a soft rubber skin, two cameras in its eyes, and a microphone in its nose….Keepon is designed to interact with children by communicating attention and emotion. It has four degrees of freedom: attention is directed by turning +/-180° and nodding +/-40°, while emotion is expressed by rocking side-to-side +/-25° and bobbing up to 15mm…

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August 17th, 2007 | Category: Blogzilla |

4 Comments so far

  1. Dean
    August 17th, 2007

    | 8:07 am

    I want 1,000 of them.

  2. Jake
    August 18th, 2007

    | 3:07 pm

    i want 1001 of them

  3. Eriq
    August 19th, 2007

    | 8:52 am

    I only want about 56 of them. I’m a little short on cash this week.

    Catch that Kozima? Make it happen. kthxbai.

  4. Trish
    February 18th, 2008

    | 1:11 pm

    I found a few more vids. These are fab.

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=QTnyAg2Mho4
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=LSU59D_dyKE http://youtube.com/watch?v=SczYTEBVYlE

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