According to the robot maker:
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.
We are developing and evaluating an architecture that will allow these robots to perceive, model, and generate social rhythms such that the robot's behaviors are synchronized with those of a human interactor. We believe that rhythmic synchrony will be as important for establishing engagement, rapport, and comfort between a robot and a person as it is between people.
Cooler than a nodding dog or one of those Billy Bass singing fish gizmos anyway.
Came across this delightful short film, Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers, which shows the fun you can have breaking into someone's flat and making music with various household implements from whisks to toilet brushes.
This new Bjork video Earth Intruders is pretty amazing.
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