Japanese ‘Beat Bot’
Watch the “Keepon” robot–the dancing fool on YouTube— making his moves to the tune “I Turn My Camera On” sung by Spoon.
World’s cutest damn robot, “Keepon,” was designed and built by Hideki Kozima to explore what he calls, “rhythmic social interaction.” The Keepon robot is a snowman-like character that is supposed to emotionally interact with kids by maintaining “eye” contact while it entertains using its two cameras in its eyes and a microphone in its nose to wiggle around with four degrees of freedom under a soft rubber skin.
チョーかわいい !!
Beat bots beat meat bots!
More information can be found at… BeatBots: Socially Rhythmic Robots
Hideki Kozima & Marek Michalowski’s “BeatBots is a project to develop technologies and methodologies for human-robot interaction that incorporate the rhythmic properties of human interactive behavior.”
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April 14th, 2007 at 8:57 am
“I want one.”
April 14th, 2007 at 9:00 am
“I want one!” is what everybody I met has said. Leave it to the farkquing Japanese government (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) to NOT offer this thing for sale through a license agreement with Hello Kitty Corp. Meh.
August 18th, 2007 at 10:18 am
As my astute buddies said before…
AO: That robot dances better than most Japanese people!
SQ: You are so right!…he has a sense of rhythm…compared to most Japanese people!..
January 18th, 2008 at 3:47 am
This robot vid is sweet! Check out http://www.cmu.edu/robou.