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From music sharing to meta DJing

J Rob spins around powerfully, grabs one of the records that had been placed behind him and carries it onto the turntable with one unerring movement. In his shiny silver and gold costume, he looks a bit like a character from a science fiction B-movie, two bright blue eyes flashing behind the visor of his helmet. It‘s a perfectly normal night for Rob, who has been entertaining guests on a cruise ship for TUI for four years. Despite long working hours, he has never complained. That‘s because DJ Rob is a humanoid robot, co-developed by

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