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I wouldn't dance to this dumb DJ robot

#artificialintelligenceFeb-5-2018, 08:10:22 GMT

Prague's Karlovy Lazne nightclub has recently embraced automation in the workplace. Its shiny new Kuka robot arm has been employed to lay down some of its beats. It rotates on an hourly basis with meatbot DJs, and was programmed by a Czech robotics firm to pluck CDs from a rack and toss them onto one of three decks in front of it. It even seems to interact with the crowd like any Eastern European house DJ. If you can get beyond the fact that a Kuka robot arms costs tens of thousands of dollars and is clearly complete overkill for this application, there's an obvious question to ask: how does it sound?

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Country: Europe > Czechia > Prague (0.28)

Technology: Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence > Robots (1.00)

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