Robot Boris’s dancing skills raised suspicion among technology aficionados.
A “hi-tech” robot proudly displayed at a technology conference in Russia has turned out to be a man in a suit.
The apparently cutting edge robot was featured on Russian state television on Tuesday ahead of the Proyektoria technology forum, a youth-focused event held in the city of Yaroslavl some 150 miles from Moscow.
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But according to the Guardian, Russian media and social media users quickly spotted some of Robot Boris’s more suspicious characteristics and uncovered the truth.
State television channel Russia-24 featured the robot in a report from the forum, showing it performing onstage with two humans and impressively mimicking their movements. The channel told viewers that “Robot Boris has already learned to dance and he’s not that bad.”
But not everyone bought it. The TJournal tech website posted a list of questions about the dancing robot, asking where its external sensors were and why it seemed to make extra “unnecessary movements” while dancing.
