Keepon has been enshrined in the Tokyo exhibition room of Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), where Hideki Kozima designed Keepon.

The automated exhibit has an interactive mode (finding and tracking faces) and a dance mode.  The exhibition room, which includes other fun NICT technologies, is open to the public. Get directions and hours for the location here (or in Japanese).

Keepon was a guest performer at last night’s 12th Annual Webby Film & Video Awards in New York City. Keepon assisted host Judah Friedlander in honoring several of the evening’s award recipients.

Later, at the after party, he accompanied DJ James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and hung out with such internet luminaries as Tay “Chocolate Rain” Zonday.

Carol Reiley included Keepon in her entry to the ICRA Comic Competition.

Reuters has published a story on Keepon after his ICRA HRI Challenge victory.

Keepon shared first prize with EPFL’s HOAP-3 in the first ICRA Human-Robot Interaction Challenge. The two robots whiled away the hours of the competition by dancing and crashing conference talks. Watch out for a video soon.

UPDATE: A Japanese article on the Challenge can be found at Robot Watch.

UPDATE: Engadget has a caption contest on this photo.

Two Keepons were on display in the HRI Challenge at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Pasadena.

Here they are with Hideki Kozima and ICRA’s youngest attendee.

Keepon was on display tonight at this year’s Carnegie Science Awards, where the Robotics Institute won the Chairman’s Award.  Attendees played with Keepon while shopping a silent auction in the Carnegie Museum of Art’s beautiful Hall of Architecture.

Marek spoke about Keepon at a Dorkbot meeting tonight at the Brillo Box. Afterwards, Keepon got to play with visitors and with Eric Schweikardt’s roBlocks:

Now you can display your love for Keepon to your college friends! Become a fan here.

Keepon was exhibited at Innovation Lab’s Nordic Exceptional Trendshop (NEXT No. 5) in Aarhus, Denmark from April 4-6.

We had a great time meeting hundreds of visiting Danes, not to mention the other exhibitors. Here’s Keepon with models showing off Soomi Park’s LED Eyelash: