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BeatBots: Socially Rhythmic Robots For Children

posted by deputydog

2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 2689 views

tags: wow, keepon, dancing, technology, spoon, i turn my camera on

This is brilliant. The clip is of a robot named Keepon dancing to a track by Spoon. From the inventor's website..

'We are currently developing and studying dance-oriented nonverbal play with between children and the robot Keepon, designed and built by Hideki Kozima. Keepon is a small creature-like robot developed to perform emotional and attentional interaction with children. It has four degrees of freedom, a soft rubber skin, two cameras in its eyes, and a microphone in its nose'

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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~marekm/projects/beatbots/

written by deputydog

| 2 years 7 months 1 week ago | CH

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Very sweet. Wish it was longer.

written by Eden

| 2 years 7 months 1 week ago | CH

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Damn. I embedded the wrong clip! Watch it now

written by deputydog

| 2 years 7 months 1 week ago | CH

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Here's a shorter but very cool clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbU7F8DFmE4

written by deputydog

| 2 years 7 months 1 week ago | CH

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Damn, what a brilliant idea!! What's going to happen when anglos everywhere in the next generation start to have some rhythm???! Hard to conceptualize really, like some bizzarro world.....

written by choggie

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Wow. I want one!

written by mlx

| 2 years 7 months 1 week ago | CH

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I want one SO BAD!!!!!

written by djsunkid

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If you can't buy it, how do we build it?

written by smiley | 2 years 7 months 1 week ago | CH

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james brown would claim that that robot has (a)soul

written by ren

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can't wait to see dancing robots that have arms and legs, and bust out the moonwalk and really krump it

written by ren

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that thing could teach white people how to dance

written by Hex

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needs to post vid with 15 of these babies rockin out...!

written by evilspongebob | 2 years 7 months 1 week ago | CH

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Cute.
"Socially Rhythmic" ?
sounds like newspeak for something else.

written by Memorare

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"Socially Rhythmic" implies little meaning...prosey

written by choggie

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Oh man I NEED one.

written by slint

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I fail to see much diff between this and the dancing Pepsi can from 15 years ago.

written by calvados

| 2 years 7 months ago | CH

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Second thought, this thing actually does respect the beat. It could maybe even inspire square young'uns to dance good

written by calvados

| 2 years 6 months 4 weeks ago | CH

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This robot vid is sweet! Check out http://www.cmu.edu/robou.

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'wow, keepon, dancing, technology' to 'wow, keepon, dancing, technology, spoon' - edited by therealblankman

written by siftbot

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*promote

written by dotdude

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, April 6th, 2007 2:52pm PDT - promote requested by dotdude.

written by siftbot

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*promote that which can dance better than I can. I guess the key is to have just two body segments and no appendages.

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'wow, keepon, dancing, technology, spoon' to 'wow, keepon, dancing, technology, spoon, i turn my camera on' - edited by kronosposeidon

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