News : Did You Know All Keepon Sales Will Benefit Future Autism Research

 

As many of you who have been fans of MyKeepon since the day he first appeared on Youtube dancing away to Spoon’s ” I Turn My Camera On” will know, this little dancing robot wasn’t actually designed to be a toy. In fact My Keepon, who was actually born Keepon Pro, actually came into being as an educational tool to help autistic children to better deal and cope with social interactions that they find difficult in normal day to day situations.

Designed with some seriously clever technology built in that allowed researchers and educators to not only monitor the response to Keepon by these children, but also enabled them to respond to the interactions the children were, the robot definitely lived up to the aspirations of the original designed Hideki Kozima with kids becoming more nurturing and attentive than they had previously been.

Now the reality is My Keepon is very different. Produced to entertain and not educate, it could feel that putting My Keepon on sale as a toy is a step backwards and moving the inventors Hideki Kozima and Marek Michalowski away from the more important work they could be doing to further improve Keepon Pro. Well the good news is quite the opposite is true. In fact every Keepon sale, far from diluting the brand, actually acts to help move their research further because as part of the conditions to allow the production of a Keepon toy was that a proportion of the profits made from your purchase of this little guy would then be distributed to help others looking further into ways robots can be used in autism research.

Now if that isn’t enough of an incentive to buy one this Christmas we don’t know what is and we’re here to help you get the very best deal with our Where To Buy guide.