Overview
- A short CCTV clip posted from a Saratov electronics shop and reposted widely shows a customer pushing a humanoid robot named Sema or Syoma and the machine moving a leg toward the man.
- The original post and later reports say the robot continued moving after the encounter and was eventually powered down because it became hard to control.
- Journalists who traced the footage located the store's Instagram account (volgastore64) as the source and noted the account presents the robot as a store “technical consultant.”
- Observers and reporters disagree about cause, saying the motion could be an autonomous balance response, a preprogrammed routine, or human teleoperation, and some suggest the clip might be staged for promotion.
- Beyond the viral jokes, experts and viewers warned of real safety risks from large humanoid machines in public spaces and urged clearer controls and verification before accepting sensational claims.