Berry Gordy, ever the business man, had an idea after seeing a synth at work – what happens if it could write hits for Motown artists?

Well, synth pioneer Raymond Scott had a robot synthesizer and he sold it to Gordy for a whole lot of money.

The huge instrument sat in storage until 1996, but here, you can see a brilliant potted history of what happened, and how the Electronium was rebuild for fun.