This article is based on a very poor translation of an announcement put out by <i>owners</i> of the robot on social media site.<p>As per the russian news site that covered this:<p>- robot was hired by the campaign to "agitate" (e.g. play loud political messages) for the candidate to passers by as they exited a subway stop in moscow.<p>- police arrived on scene and asked the organizers to move the robot farther away from the path of the people.<p>Based on above, the owners put out a press release claiming the robot was "almost arrested" and announced that between the original "escape from proving grounds" 2 weeks ago and this, the robot "must now be destroyed ... because it got too smart".<p>Pretty good marketing campaign, but definitely not an AI breakthrough :)<p>edit: format
<i>Police have not confirmed why they detained the machine named Promobot, but local media was reporting the company behind the robot said police were called because it was "recording voters' opinions on [a] variety of topics for further processing and analysis by the candidate's team".</i><p>Here's the perp's website: <a href="http://en.promo-bot.ru/" rel="nofollow">http://en.promo-bot.ru/</a><p>Anyway, this is so much BS.<p>I didn't see any handcuffs being use in the video. The thing has arms but don't appear functional except to hold press releases.<p>Very poor choice of words. The police don't "detain" your camera or your computer when they seize evidence.<p>Up next: Local police arrest Corolla for to many parking violations.
Right after another robot disarmed a suspect in LA [0]. Our robot future is here.<p>[0] <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/news/an-inattentive-gunman-got-his-rifle-snatched-by-a-robot-cops-say-7392372" rel="nofollow">http://www.laweekly.com/news/an-inattentive-gunman-got-his-r...</a>
It's not the first time:
<a href="http://piratetimes.net/plastic-pirates-put-into-prison/" rel="nofollow">http://piratetimes.net/plastic-pirates-put-into-prison/</a>