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2025-03

Robot Comedy Performance #1

Stand-up comedy by a robot · London

QTrobot standing on a small round table in front of a projected red stage curtain.

01Details

Date
Venue
Creative Digital Lab, London
Audience
22
Personas
2 — British / AmericanNigel Droll · Jimmy Blaze
Model
text-davinci-003
Platform
QTrobot (LuxAI) · ROS

02Stage

Screen (projected curtain) Robot PC Audience Camera
Stage layout — performance 01

03Clips

Nigel Droll — openingPerformance 1 · 0:15
Nigel Droll — cats and dogsPerformance 1 · 0:20
Nigel Droll — coughingPerformance 1 · 0:05
Jimmy Blaze — opening gesturePerformance 1 · 0:05

04Personas

  • British

    Nigel Droll

    Classic British humour: sarcasm, irony, self-deprecation

    Own failures, British weather, awkward social interactions, the absurdity of politeness

  • American

    Jimmy Blaze

    Bold, high-energy, self-aggressive

    Everyday struggles, embarrassing moments, overreactions to minor inconveniences

05System

  1. 01

    Listen

    Speech recognition on the robot turns the host's question into text

  2. 02

    Respond

    A language model answers in persona, keeping the last five turns as memory

  3. 03

    Read

    Each sentence is scored for emotion (text2emotion)

  4. 04

    Perform

    The robot speaks, shows a matching face on its screen and plays a gesture

06Documentation

  • Performance 01: the robot on stage at Creative Digital Lab, seen from behind the audience.
    Audience view
  • A broadcast camera on a tripod facing the stage, the robot visible in its monitor.
    Camera rig
  • Control desk with monitors showing the robot on stage.
    Control desk

07Papers

  1. 2026-05Laughing across cultures: culturally sensitive robotic stand-up comedian with multimodal expressiveness
  2. 2025-09Culturally Sensitive Stand-Up Comedian Robot

08Recordings

Full recordings available on request

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