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.

Jake Coyle wrote an AP article in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on the phenomenon of YouTube music videos:

Acts are increasingly giving up at least some control, leaving them sometimes wondering what their role is in this new, post-MTV, democratic world of music videos.

For the unofficial video for Spoon’s Don’t You Evah (tinyurl.com/yp38wh) produced by Wired magazine, the band gave its blessing to the robot-dancing clip. If you look closely, though, you can spot Spoon frontman Britt Daniel on an escalator — only a background figure in his own video.

Gizmodo speculates, upon seeing “Keepon: Friend or Foe,” that Daniel Wilson will soon be amassing a dancing army of Keepons. We neither confirm nor deny that he has made such a request.

Update: This was also picked up on Gizmodo Japan.

The Chicago Maroon puts “Don’t You Evah” at the top of its best-of-2007 list.

Strangely enough, the I Love To Cheat Diet prescribes Keepon as a weight loss method. Start burning those calories.

Robots.net has written about Keepon.

IEEE Spectrum’s Automaton blog puts Keepon in the top 3 robots of 2007 — in the company of Pleo and Boss.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette interviewed Michalowski about Keepon and the BeatBots project.

The “Don’t You Evah” video appeared on the new PBS series WIRED Science this evening.