Ugobe is busily preparing for an October launch of its dinosaur artificial-lifeform, Pleo, by releasing a series of "Behind the Scenes" videos on the making of Pleo.



Also video that has popped up online, is a parody of the Budweiser "Wassssup" commercial featuring Pleo.

You can watch all the videos and read more about them, on our sister-site, PleoBot.com. We’ll also be posting some exclusive shots taken of Pleo at RoboCup2007. You can watch the latest Ugobe video after the jump.




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Keepon, a robot designed to study, "dance-oriented nonverbal play with between children and the robot" gets his big debut in a music-video featuring the music of Spoon. The robot, designed and built by Hideki Kozima, and programmed by Marek Michalowski, has four degrees of freedom, two cameras in his eyes, and a microphone in his nose, and is absolutely adorable.

There, I've said it. Keepon, is probably the cutest robot this side of Johnny-Five. He's also a great dancer – witnessed by the over 1.3 million views this video has on Youtube. He'll be making an appearance at WIRED's NextFest in September.

Keepon is designed to interact with children by communicating attention and emotion. It has four degrees of freedom: attention is directed by turning +/-180° and nodding +/-40°, while emotion is expressed by rocking side-to-side +/-25° and bobbing up to 15mm:

Check out the video below:





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