Robot featured on Russian TV was actually a person in costume

Real robot or robot-dressed people? The questioning - which was born of a clown meme - is very important in a case that happened in Russia: during the coverage of a meeting on technology for children, the local state TV channel showed a robot that supposedly had incredible movements and would know including dancing very well.

The problem is that this robot, which even had a name - Boris - was not exactly that, but a person dressed as a robot, as you can see in several parts of the report made by Russian TV. In fact, it is a very realistic fantasy and is even for sale on a Russian site called Show Robots for 250 thousand rubles, the equivalent of $ 14, 500.

Apparently, it was not a scam created by the tech event organizers, but a misconception made by the story that considered a costumed guy a real robot. The full story - in Russian, of course - is posted on the YouTube news channel and can still be viewed. Several spectators noticed in a scene that clearly was a person under that robot carcass.

Robot featured on Russian TV was actually a costumed person via TecMundo