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 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.

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

We attended the RO-MAN 2007 conference August 26-29 in Jeju Island, Korea with Keepon, who won the Best Interactive Demonstration award.

Keepon won the Robots at Play Prize!

Today Pitchfork Media announced Keepon’s new music video: Spoon’s “Don’t You Evah”. Produced by WIRED Magazine, featuring Keepon’s creator Hideki Kozima and members of Spoon.