A video of a robot hitting a child has gone viral. Many media talk about going crazy but the reality is different: we have reconstructed the hypotheses that explain what happened starting from the robot.
The video works well. There is a robot dressed as a clown who advances by simulating martial arts strikes. It proceeds for several meters on what looks like a tappeto positioned on the ground with some problems. Perhaps the ground underneath is uneven or perhaps the carpet was simply laid poorly. The robot has a blue wig on his headprobably taken from a clown disguise. While trying to kick in the air he catches a child who falls to the ground crying. It is a video that has been circulated in recent days, much taken up on social media but often without context. According to CNN, the video dates back to June 1, 2026 and was published by Dahe Dailya state-linked Chinese media outlet. The video was filmed extensively on Weibo, the super app that in China is used by a long series of services, from messaging to social media, through to small transactions. Scrolling through different sources we see that the video was shot in the Xinjiang regiona huge territory located in North West China.
It is not easy to locate the robot model. Also because on the Chinese market you can find models that are not sold on the European one. We found several similar models on the market. There is Unitree G1a humanoid robot on sale for cheap more of 21,000 euros. But there are also models with the same characteristics produced by Honor. However, all robots similar to the one shown in the video have the same characteristic: they are not completely autonomous.
What happened to the robot before attacking the child
Sure, they have gods sensors that help them orient themselves in space but they cannot move anywhere on their own. They need to be programmed to manage a series of movements or directly remote controlled by an external operator. It’s not difficult to see in technology fairs robots that move through the crowd accompanied by an operator who, a few meters away, dictates the movements to follow. In light of this, talking about a “crazy robot” is incorrect. Probably the movement was miscalculatedperhaps also due to the ground not being exactly level. The effect was an involuntary kick given to a child, perhaps too close to the robot. In the end the little victim was unharmed and the show was stopped. For now the machines are still under our control.
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