Keepon on NBC’s Today Show
Keepon Goes Seoul-Searching
“The Works: Robots” on the History Channel
Keepon Auditioning
Keepon: Friend or Foe?
Keepon dancing to Spoon’s “Don’t You Evah”
Keepon dancing to Spoon’s “I Turn My Camera On”
We were invited by TTC to demonstrate Keepon at the May 21, 2009 briefing of the Congressional Robotics Caucus at the Capitol in Washington, DC. The Caucus, chaired by Reps. Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Phil Gingrey (R-GA), focuses on challenges faced by the nation’s emerging robotics industry. In addition to several demos, the presentations included an unveiling of A Roadmap for US Robotics.
We brought Keepon to the 2nd HRI Robot Challenge (at the ICRA 2009 conference) in Kobe, Japan, May 14-15. He got to play with the extinct robodog AIBO, a worthy adversary…
UPDATE: Keepon has won the competition for the second year in a row! We received a lovely certificate from the Mayor of Kobe.
BeatBots exhibited Keepon at the RoboBusiness 2009 Conference & Expo, April 15-16 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. We were in The Technology Collaborative’s booth. On Thursday, Marek gave a talk in the RoboMedicus (healthcare robotics) track on “Socially Interactive Robots in Therapeutic Play.”
UPDATE: Trender Research posted a story about our exhibit.
Keepon was live in the studio on NBC’s Today Show in a segment on robots used in autism research and therapy.
Popular Science has written a great article on robots and autism featuring Keepon.
Our local ABC affiliate (WTAE Channel 4) today aired an interview with Marek and an interaction between Keepon and children with the Autism Society of Pittsburgh at the Spectrum Charter School.
