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 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!
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 to describe, other than “incredibly cute,” and it’s still stunning how lifelike and emotive two squishy stacked balls with googly-eyes can be… Keepon makes the “Top Robots of the past 10 Years” list simply because of his amazing ability to charm his way into mainstream culture.
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.
Some people use Keepon as a weight-loss method, but AnnaTheRed has prepared a Keepon-themed bento box for her boyfriend. We love it, and we’re sure her boyfriend enjoyed the well-balanced meal of rice, eggs, meatballs, and broccoli more than the undoubtedly chewy fleece version she made him. We hope she’ll cook for us next time [...]
We’re exhibiting Keepon at the RoboDays Festival in Odense, Denmark. It’s the third such event, a follow-up to 2007’s Robots at Play festival (where we won the €10,000 grand prize). We were invited back to participate in the panel of judges. This year’s winner is the EyeSeeCam (picture below), a gaze-tracking helmet with a beautifully [...]
IEEE Spectrum’s Josh Romero has made a video about the therapeutic uses of Keepon and Paro. More discussion at Spectrum’s Automaton blog.
