MyKeepon
KeeponPro
Robot Film Festival
spazzi
KeeponSpoon

My Keepon

My Keepon™ is an interactive robotic toy for kids of all ages. In its touch mode, it responds to pokes, pats, and tickles with a rich variety of emotional movements and sounds. In its dance mode, it hears the beat in music or clapping and dances in synchronized rhythm. Coming to stores this fall!

Keepon Pro

Keepon® Pro is a social robot designed for interaction with children, particularly those with developmental disorders such as autism. Under the control of a therapist, this robust hardware/software research platform serves as a social facilitator and as a recording tool in the playroom or lab.

Robot Film Fest

The Robot Film Festival is a celebration of stories about machines, held July 16-17, 2011 at the 3LD Art & Technology Center in New York. The festival features Spike Jonze’s I’m Here; fifty submitted short films in the themes of Robots Invading, Robots in Rhythm, Robots in Use, and Robots in Love; a “Botsker” award [...]

Spazzi

Spazzi™ is a build-it-yourself dancing robot that we designed for MAKE Magazine. It incorporates off-the shelf solenoids and electronic components, an Arduino, and plastic parts that you can print on your MakerBot or other 3D printer. The article is at MAKE, instructions are at Make:Projects, and the components are at Thingiverse.

Media

The character of Keepon® has evolved through a series of music videos that take the dancing robot around the world in search of music and friends. And Keepon’s more serious research goals have been featured across a wide variety of media, from Entertainment Weekly to the Today Show.

Projects

MyKeepon
KeeponPro
Robot Film Festival

From the Blog

Dec
21

Shapeways My Keepon Challenge

Posted by beatbots on December 21st, 2011 at 3:03 pm

We’re working with 3D-fabricator Shapeways to bring you an opportunity to spiff up your My Keepon! The Shapeways My Keepon Challenge invites the designer/hobbyist/DIY community to create accessories (hats, glasses, belts, rocket packs, etc.) for the yellow fellow and to submit them for a chance to win a My Keepon, a Shapeways gift certificate, and [...]

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Sep
20

My Keepon updates

Posted by beatbots on September 20th, 2011 at 1:49 pm

We’re happy to report that the My Keepon toy is coming along nicely! Last week, the MyKeepon.com website went live with a new music video featuring the toy. We’ve had wonderfully supportive interviews/coverage from Businessweek, Engadget, CNET Crave, MIT Technology Review, Automaton, Robots Dreams, and Adafruit. And our press release has just gone out on [...]

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Jul
30

Wherein Keepon’s fans are a crafty lot.

Posted by beatbots on July 30th, 2011 at 12:51 am

Over the past few weeks, we’ve received a fantastic collection of crafty Keepon-gear from fans. Here’s some of their beautiful work! You may remember Anna the Red from this Keepon-themed bento box. Well, Marek randomly met her at a sidewalk cafe in Brooklyn, and invited her to come to the Robot Film Festival. She was [...]

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Apr
17

Updates: DTI, Pictoplasma, RoboGames

Posted by beatbots on April 17th, 2011 at 8:00 pm

A few updates on miscellaneous BeatBots happenings: The Danish Technological Institute is using Keepon in a research project. We visited the Rosengårdskolen and Tornbjerg Skole in Odense, where the kids drew these fantastic pictures: Marek spoke about Keepon, and the relationship between robotics and animation, at the Pictoplasma festival in Berlin on April 9, 2011. [...]

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