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Keepon at Three Rivers Arts Festival

By beatbots Friday June 4, 2010

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Keepon is on display at the Three Rivers Arts Festival, an annual 10-day celebration of the arts in downtown Pittsburgh. During the weekend (June 5th, 6th, & 12th noon-6pm), Keepon is playing outside with kids at Point State Park in the Creativity Zone (sharing a tent with the Saturday Light Brigade). During the week (June 4th, 7th, 8th & 9th 4-8pm; June 10th & 11th noon-8pm), Keepon is in the gallery on the 3rd floor of 805-807 Liberty Avenue for the Art of Technology visual art exhibition, sharing floor space with local artists such as Lori Hepner and Burton Morris.

UPDATE: Photo by Renee Rosensteel.

Keepon wins Smiley Award :-)

By beatbots Friday April 23, 2010

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Keepon is the winner of this year’s Smiley Award. The award was established three years ago by Scott Fahlman, creator of the emoticon :-)

To celebrate this award, we propose the following character sequence as a Keepon marker:

(o.o)

Many thanks to the judges!

Pictoplasma festival & DVD

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Keepon is again being featured in Pictoplasma’s character design and animation festival, this time with the “Don’t You Evah” video. It will screen during the “Characters in Rhythm” session on April 9 at 2pm.
The video is also included in the latest book/DVD compilation, Characters in Motion Vol. 3.

CES 2010

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We exhibited Keepon at CES in Las Vegas last week, courtesy of JETRO.

Press included Hack a Day, Butterscotch, Bright Side of News, and two videos by Robotics Trends. We also had good fun out on the town with Evan at BotJunkie!

Keepon in top 10 robots of the decade

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Happy new year from BeatBots!
Keepon was selected as one of the top 10 robots of the past 10 years by GoRobotics. At the top of the list:
We tried to pick robots that have made an impact in our culture or have impacted the hobby or science of robots in a major way… Keepon is hard [...]

IREX 2009

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We just finished exhibiting Keepon at the International Robot Exhibition at Tokyo Big Sight. With Kokoro’s Actroid Sara as Keepon’s robo-buddy, our booth was rather popular!

We were covered by Robots Dreams (great to finally meet you, Lem!) and Akihabara News.

Keepon at Three Rivers Arts Festival

Keepon wins Smiley Award :-)

Pictoplasma festival & DVD

CES 2010

Keepon in top 10 robots of the decade

IREX 2009

Keepon Bento

RoboDays Festival

IEEE Spectrum: The Invasion of Cute, Therapeutic Robots

Slate V: We, Robots

Congressional Robotics Caucus briefing

ICRA 2009

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