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Dancing muppet robot rocks out in Tokyo
August 15th, 2007

With Tokyo in an intense heat wave, there’s nothing like a dancing robot to lift one’s spirits from the humid doldrums. This great video from Wired and my roboticist pal Marek Michalowski features the ‘creature-like’ robot Keepon developed at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology’s (NICT) Kyoto research center.

(Read all about it at Loving the Machine)

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11:45 PM Tim Hornyak • Permalink
Japan | Robots
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