the dancing robot is called Keepon. it’s dancing to “i turn my camera on”, by spoon. it gets the rhythm from the music and changes the pattern of its dance.
“We are currently developing and studying dance-oriented nonverbal play with between children and the robot Keepon, designed and built by Hideki Kozima. Keepon is a small creature-like robot developed to perform emotional and attentional interaction with children. It has four degrees of freedom, a soft rubber skin, two cameras in its eyes, and a microphone in its nose”
i took these photos in kingston. red back ground is an ikea chair. it had a nice grainy red cover. i was holding a spoon with my left hand while i was taking photos. the head fitted perfectly to the spoon. it looked delicious. “don’t eat me” one was kind of an accident - a happy accident. i was moving the spoon and the head moved at the same time. he looked real shy, which i like.
postcards of these images are available on my online SHOP.
