Older News
- Keepon was on interactive demonstration at RoboDays: Robot Festival (Sep. 10~12, 2009; Odense, Denmark)
- Keepon has got Kobe Mayor's Award at the 2nd Grand Challenge in Human-Robot Interaction at ICRA 2009 (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation; May 15, 2009; Kobe, Japan)
- Keepon was on live at NBC Today Show on robots in autism therapy. (Apr. 15, 2009)
- Keepon on autism therapy in US has been reported on WTAE-TV4, Pittsburgh. You can also view it on YouTube. (Apr. 3, 2009)
- Low-cost Keepon has been announced. There are some media coverages on this new product. (Apr. 1, 2009)
- Keepon showed up in BeatBots' booth at CES-2009 (Consumer Electronics Show; Las Vegas, NV, USA) (Jan. 8~11, 2009)
- Infanoid Project at NICT has moved to CareBots Project at Miyagi University (MYU) (Oct. 1, 2008)
- Winner of the 1st Grand Challenge in Human-Robot Interaction at ICRA 2008 (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation; Pasadena, CA, USA) (May 22, 2008; Pasadena, CA, USA), Robot Challenge
- Keepon was on PBS WIRED Science (Nov. 21, 2007)
- Demonstration at WIRED NextFest and a Spoon concert (Sep. 10 and 13~16, 2007; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
- "Best Interactive Demonstration Award" at IEEE RO-MAN 2007 (Aug. 28, 2007; Jeju, Korea)
- "Grand Prize" at Robots at Play (Aug. 24, 2007; Odense, Denmark)