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It is a question that Prague's Karlovy Lazne
Music Club has endeavored to answer by employing a specially
adapted former automotive industry robot as a DJ in the popular
nightspot.
The robot is shaped like a giant arm capped with a pincer, and
has shared deck duties at the club with its human programmer in
an hourly rotation each night for the last three weeks.
"People are excited (about the robot), because they haven't seen
anything like this around Europe, and I am not sure if there is
something similar in the world," club manager Adam Lipsansky
told Reuters.
The DJ robot was created after the club's management challenged
a robotics firm to the task.
Equipped with special software to help it choose songs and
mounted on a stage above the club's dance floor, the robot
selects discs from nearby racks and puts them into one of three
music players in front of it. It can scratch records and also
dances.
While some clubbers told Reuters that they enjoyed the robot's
musical efforts, others remained unconvinced.
"I don't like the robot," said Marcia Lopes, 24, a tourist from
Mexico. "It can't feel what the people want to dance to. There
is no emotion behind the music. When there is a real person,
they know, what fun is like."
(Reporting by David Cerny and Jiri Skacel Writing by Mark
Hanrahan in London; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
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