Most Awesomest Robot Dance Video EVAR!

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 16 of August , 2007 at 2:27 am

By Evan Ackerman

Here it is, nearly midnight, I have like 5 more hours of work, and what did I spend the last 4 minutes and 5 seconds doing? That’s right, gettin’ down and jiggy with a badass robot dance video. The music is catchy, but the little Keepon robot absolutely steals the show with his rhythmic dance moves. Check it out:

This video was sponsored by WIRED after Keepon’s wildly successful (in Japan) music debut, which you can watch here. Oh, and the band in the background is Spoon. Sadly, you can’t buy Keepon, since he’s a research robot, but the designers are working on a similar bot called Roillo who should have similar capabilities and may become commercially available.

[ Keepon BeatBot ] VIA [ Robots-Dreams ]

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Comment by Alex

Made Thursday, 16 of August , 2007 at 11:47 am

Thats the cutest robot I have ever seen. How did it react to the guy in the lab coat?

Comment by Evan Ackerman

Made Friday, 17 of August , 2007 at 1:01 am

As far as I could tell, none of the robot’s actions were scripted. It’s got stereo cameras for eyes, and is able to recognize and react to faces… Several faces at the same time, in fact. So when it looks back and forth between people, it’s doing it all by itself.

Comment by Alex

Made Friday, 17 of August , 2007 at 7:09 am

Thats pretty neat. I kind of want to see an army of these. This would make a very nice “pet” robot if they put touch sensors in its head and somehow managed to shrink the black cylinder to within the body. It would also be great to see it moving around… Thanks for posting this!