When is a robot not a robot? When there’s a human inside it, that’s when.
A recent TV show in Russia led many viewers to believe they were watching an amazing high-tech robot capable of dancing and talking. But a short while later it emerged that the “android” was nothing more than a young fella inside a costume.
National channel Russia-24 — which itself appeared to believe the robot was real — was broadcasting from a technology-focused youth forum taking place near Moscow last week, the Guardian reported.
The contraption, called Boris, put on an impressive performance as it danced on stage alongside a couple of the forum’s hosts. It even spoke with an electronic voice, telling the audience, “I know mathematics well, but I also want to know how to draw and write music.”
But it wasn’t long before eagle-eyed members of the online crowd started posting their suspicions that Boris the robot might actually be Boris the human instead. Some questioned why it appeared to have no sensors, while others found some of its movements, even for a robot, a bit weird.
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