Weekend Fun: Keepon Truckin’

Posted on Mar 24, 2007

Marek Michalowski of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, US, and Hideki Kozima of the National Institute of Communications Technology (NICT) in Kyoto, Japan, programmed the spongey, yellow snowman-like robot, dubbed “Keepon,” to detect the down beat in a song and boogie along in perfect time. Inside Keepon are motors, wires and a mechanical device called a gimbal that manipulate’s the cuddly fella like a...