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 in NY…
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 actuated foveal camera that follows the wearer’s eye movements.
The promo video for the event is brilliant:
IEEE Spectrum‘s Josh Romero has made a video about the therapeutic uses of Keepon and Paro. More discussion at Spectrum’s Automaton blog.
Danielle Parsons filmed a collection of bots at RoboBusiness in a piece for Slate V’s Conventional Wisdom series. Keepon footage at 0:14, 0:24, 3:08, and 4:10.