[CES 2009] BotJunkie Meets Keepon (Finally!)
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Saturday, 10 of January , 2009 at 4:29 am
If you’re wondering what the highlight of CES was for me, it wasn’t the Microsoft keynote, it wasn’t the party I just got back from at the top of the Palms Fantasy tower, and it wasn’t any of this stuff. No, as you may have guessed (if you’ve spent much time reading BotJunkie), it was finally finally getting a chance to meet Keepon, the squishy little yellow BeatBot.
Alongside Keepon (and another Keepon) was Marek Michalowski, the founder of BeatBots and co-creator of the robot. Marek was showing off some new features like Wiimote control, and talking a little bit about his current research. Check it out:
Just a reminder that Keepon is currently available in a hand-built $30,000 version, but BeatBots is working on something significantly more affordable. And I have to say, Keepon is WAY CUTER in person, and he is exactly as soft and squishy as he looks. He does that little double bounce thing and head tilt and I totally melt. Marek says he’s got two of these at home, and I honestly don’t know how he gets anything done with them around.
As far as I know, Keepon will be at CES through Sunday, so if you have any questions or picture/video requests, post in the comments and I’ll gladly go back… I’ll take any excuse to poke Keepon a bunch more in his little yellow belly.
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Comment by Ironman
Made Saturday, 10 of January , 2009 at 11:51 am
so extremely jealous.
i do believe i’m turning green.
if i were a keepon i’d be green and jealous.
… okay maybe that was a bit weird.
Comment by RobotGrrl
Made Sunday, 11 of January , 2009 at 7:03 pm
Keepon is so cuuuute!
Comment by amodedoma
Made Monday, 4 of January , 2010 at 6:05 am
$30000 !!!!! I don’t care if it’s cute as Bambi! I could build a full size, fully functional Johnny 5 for that kind of cash.