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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Happiness in a Little Yellow Ball (or Two)

You may have seen this already. I just finished reading a Wired article about them, but it's worth re-viewing if you're more in the know than me. They're BeatBots. Little robot blobs designed, supposedly, to study "dance-oriented nonverbal play with between children and the robot Keepon." Know how the scientists are promoting it? With videos of KeepOn rocking to some Spoon, now with high production values:


It's inspired a wave of remixes and people creating their own videos with fake Keepons. My favorite remix is set to Lil' Jon's "Get Low." Nothing like a little yellow robot dancing to (and I'm imagining it shouting in a cute, robot voice) "Ah, skeet, skeet, skeet, skeet, skeet, skeet, skeet. Ah, skeet, skeet."

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