Keepon, developed by Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics department, is “a small creature-like robot designed to interact with children by directing attention and expressing emotion“.

It also makes groovy little YouTube videos:

This little cute’bot is no amateur. It was quickly picked up by WIRED and taken to Japan to conquer it’s people and robots:

Someone had the good sense to…

Keepon – CMU’s rhythmically intelligent robots for research and entertainment.