Robot band makes its debut on a campus in the capital

BEIJING - The performers played different Chinese musical instruments on stage, swinging along with the melodious sounds. Welcome to the debut performance of Moja - a band of three robots.

Students from Tsinghua University recently enjoyed a special musical play, which tells the story of a student who faces many challenges when he invents musical robots in a lab. The musical drama was performed by both human actors and robots.

The three Moja band members are Yuheng, Yaoguang and Kaiyang. They are named after three stars of the Big Dipper, and they play traditional Chinese musical instruments - bamboo flute, konghou, an ancient plucked stringed instrument, and drums.