Hütter: The idea for the album came to us 20 years ago. At that time, we wrote it as a script for a film. But it didn't click for us until last year, when we gave the concerts in Paris and when our robots were exhibited in the museum there. Then could we bring our plans to an end.

Were really Kraftwerk's robots exhibited in a museum of Paris? As far as I know nobody had mentioned here this before. DER AUTOMAT