Keepon dancing robot featured in Spoon’s latest music video

Posted in robot, keepon (August 17, 2007 at 4:20 am)

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Step off those treadmills OK GO, there’s a new indie music video on YouTube ready to help us nerds locate our groove muscle. Spoon’s “Don’t You Evah” features the toxically cute Keepon dancing robot developed by Carnegie Mellon and Japan’s National Institute of Communications Technology. Be sure to hang in ’til the end for the robot dance party which features Manoi, RB2000 and a Johnny Five wannabe getting tore-up from the floor-up in that mad servo style. Full vid after the break.

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Keepon dancing robot busts moves, hearts

Posted in News, robot, dancing robot, DancingRobot, keepon (March 23, 2007 at 9:24 pm)

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While robots capable of kinda sorta dancing along with music are hardly anything new, few can match the moves this recently developed “Keepon” robot is capable of busting out — without arms or legs, no less. Developed by Carnegie Mellon’s Marek Michalowski and Hideki Kozima of Japan’s National Institute of Communications Technology, the little yellow bot uses a gimbal-based system to move through about as full a range of motions as two spheres are capable of, and is able to react to visual stimulation in addition to music thanks to some built-in cameras. Sadly, this dancing machine remains confined to the lab for the time being, although you can check out a couple of videos of it in action by clicking on the read link below.

[Via New Scientist]

 

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