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Keepon, a robot designed to interact with children for the purpose of studying social development and interpersonal coordination. Its minimal form is designed to make the robot's attentive, emotive and rhythmic behaviors easy to understand, even for children with developmental disorders such as autism.
Keepon has four degrees of freedom, a soft skin for safety, lifelike movement cameras in its eyes and a microphone in its nose. Keepon was designed by Hideki Kozima, a professor at Miyagi University in Japan and co-founder of BeatBots LLC, home of Keepon.Image credit: ©BeatBots LLC; "Keepon" and "Beatbots" are trademarks of BeatBots LLC; http://beatbots.org
