Yesterday, the internet went slightly crazy for the story of Promobot, a Russian-made "runaway robot" that escaped its handlers and caused a traffic jam on a suburban Russian street. It's a story ...

A runaway robot caused a traffic jam in Russia after it escaped from its testing area. RIP humanity. "Our engineer drove onto the testing ground and forgot to close the gates," Oleg Kivokurtsev, ...

The Russian robot that gained internet infamy by “breaking out” of its lab a few months ago just can’t stay out of trouble. A new report says that Promobot was “arrested” at a political rally in ...

Russia’s “Promobot” gained millions of fans and supporters this summer thanks to its famed ‘escapes’ from the laboratory, which caused major traffic jams and supposedly got the automaton in hot water ...

PERM, Russia, June 16 (UPI) --A Russian robot reportedly escaped from its laboratory in the city of Perm and caused a traffic jam by rolling out into the street. Researchers at Promobot laboratories ...

A robot escaped its human overlords in Russia, according to a local newspaper—and its mad rush to freedom (which admittedly might have just been a marketing stunt) stirred some of us here at Fast ...

A robot was arrested in Moscow this week while working the crowd at a campaign rally for Russian Parliamentary candidate Valery Kalachev. Promobot, a sales robot prototype that has a history of ...

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