Kraftwerk: Autobahn live at Tate Modern - in pictures

Kraftwerk reveal their robotic nature – despite there being actual people on stage for We Are the Robots Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

Someone needs to tell the driver of that yellow Beetle to get over to the offside lane of the Autobahn Photograph: Jim Dyson/Redferns via Getty Images

The one thing you won't see at a Kraftwerk show is feet-on-monitors rock action, sadly Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

"Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn …" Last night's show was concentrated around the album that celebrated the joys of motorway travel Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

The audience in the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall don £d glasses to get the full benefit of Kraftwerk's visuals Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

The view from the mixing desk of Kraftwerk performing in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

It looks like you need the 3D specs for this one – we can't imagine Kraftwerk cocking up the registration on their images that badly … Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Kraftwerk took advantage of the captive audience at the Tate to advertise their new range of synthpop Action Men Photograph: Jim Dyson/Redferns via Getty Images

Past, present and future, as 50s technology is used as an aid by the most technologically advanced of pop groups Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters