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Russia’s much-hyped humanoid robot face-plants onstage during debut
Washington Post via MSN ^ | 13 November 2025 | Naomi Schanen, Natalia Abbakumova

Posted on 11/15/2025 6:31:36 PM PST by Apparatchik

A humanoid robot’s highly anticipated debut quickly went awry when it stumbled onstage at a technology showcase in Moscow on Tuesday.

Backed by the theme song of “Rocky,” the robot, accompanied by two people, waddled onto the stage before a room full of journalists ready to catch a glimpse of what the developers called “Russia’s first anthropomorphic robot with artificial intelligence.” But in a scene resembling the end of a messy night at the bar, as the robot attempted to wave its right hand, it stumbled around before falling flat, face-first.

The two men accompanying the robot scrambled to drag it offstage, while other staff members tried to pull a black curtain across the stage to cover the blunder.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: failure; robot; russia; russiarobot
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Was this the same model that stood in for Biden at public events?

1 posted on 11/15/2025 6:31:36 PM PST by Apparatchik
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To: Apparatchik

I was going to guess it was the Joe Biden model.


2 posted on 11/15/2025 6:33:49 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Always spay or neuter your liberal.)
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To: Apparatchik

That was funny. After all that build up ‘Getting Strong Now!’, only four steps in, the Robot is bobbing and weaving like a punch drunk Boxer, then, Down For The Count!
Maybe next time, use a Robot that is not powered by
Turnip Schnapps aka Wildschonazuer Krautinger.


3 posted on 11/15/2025 6:37:03 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Apparatchik

Performance art demonstrating that AI robots or AI controlling anything is a sick joke? Elon will make it work though, no matter how much it bankrupts the American middle class.


4 posted on 11/15/2025 6:41:12 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: Apparatchik

I’d say the Tesla robot is a tad more functional...

https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+robot+video&sca_esv=7f99260b855e4778&sxsrf=AE3TifOHymmbj_TR84DC-cnAMJXM0edKZg%3A1763260781554&ei=bTkZaerJIeisptQPtMaByQE&ved=0ahUKEwiqtJ-k0vWQAxVolokEHTRjIBkQ4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=tesla+robot+video&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiEXRlc2xhIHJvYm90IHZpZGVvMgoQIxiABBgnGIoFMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHkjRClD2Blj2BnABeACQAQCYAWCgAa8BqgEBMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCAqACWcICChAAGLADGNYEGEeYAwCIBgGQBgiSBwEyoAe0DLIHATG4B1PCBwMyLTLIBwc&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:3ccd0394,vid:_aziNkobuY4,st:0


5 posted on 11/15/2025 6:43:16 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Apparatchik

The robot needs to be very careful and avoid being in upper stories of high rise buildings near open windows. Stumbles can be killers. ;-)


6 posted on 11/15/2025 6:43:38 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: Apparatchik
Those poor robot developers. I hope they got to say "good bye" to their families...


7 posted on 11/15/2025 6:48:59 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Apparatchik

Vodka is to blame.


8 posted on 11/15/2025 6:51:02 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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To: thegagline

Give me a Screwdriver...
I’ll Fix It alright!


9 posted on 11/15/2025 6:53:22 PM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Big Red Badger
***Russia’s much-hyped humanoid robot face-plants onstage during debut***

Was the robot programmed to mimic Senator John Fetterman? ❓

10 posted on 11/15/2025 7:00:57 PM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: OrangeHoof; Apparatchik

I’m a third one who thought of Biden when I saw that. The handlers rushing to its aid competed the picture.


11 posted on 11/15/2025 7:04:16 PM PST by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole-You had so much to offer, why didya offer your soul?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; SaveFerris; gundog; Kenny Bania
Hey, he has Morty's beltless trenchcoat!


12 posted on 11/15/2025 7:07:08 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: Apparatchik

Someone needs to post a GIF of the Ric Flair flop!
I unfortunately do not know how to do that.


13 posted on 11/15/2025 7:14:22 PM PST by Moleman
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To: I-ambush

Let see how well the robot climbs steps trying to boards an airplane...


14 posted on 11/15/2025 7:37:39 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Always spay or neuter your liberal.)
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To: Apparatchik

I would advise all involved not to stand too near any windows.


15 posted on 11/15/2025 7:37:46 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: Apparatchik

Ha ha ha! A decent writer could come up with an entire screenplay based on that!


16 posted on 11/15/2025 7:55:56 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Bob Ireland

Yuppers!


17 posted on 11/15/2025 7:59:28 PM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Apparatchik

Gonna guess that the people in charge of getting this robot development will be transferred to Siberia at least if they live. Putin doesn’t like embarrassment.


18 posted on 11/15/2025 8:26:19 PM PST by gildafarrell ("To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!")
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To: Apparatchik

This just shows how the Rooskies fear cooperation with the West, and think some kind of cooperation with Iran and the Chicoms is the best way to go.

If this goes on, they will be eaten by the Chicoms and the muslims already in their territory.


19 posted on 11/15/2025 8:38:07 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.”)
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To: Apparatchik

The Tsars never recognized intellectual property, and Russia has been behind West ever since. Russia delights in stealing technology from the West, but can’t develop its own. This just more proof of that.


20 posted on 11/15/2025 8:42:44 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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