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Robot Punk's Not Dead!: Page 2 of 2

The robots can apparently decide whether a song is punk or not within about 30 seconds, and can even respond to the level of punk in a song.

The more punk a song is, the more the robot pogos in a "happy and frenzied way," according to professor McOwan, who was keen to see how humans interact with their robot concert-goers.

”It's real-time signal processing and robotic control in a fairly hostile environment -- in a mosh pit with lots of sweaty punks,” he told the BBC.