The robot Keepon (developed by Hideki Kozima) is designed to interact with children by communicating attention and emotion in the simplest and most comprehensible way.
See http://univ.nict.go.jp/people/xkozima/infanoid/robot-eng.html#keepon
and http://beatbots.orgTags:Keeponyellowrobotattentionemotion
Saw this on TV, pretty cool, it's a robot with two cameras, a microphone and is programmed with emotions. It's called a Keppon, and no, you can't buy one..
