The robot stole 12 large humanoids from another manufacturer

The makers said the video was not staged.

A viral video captured by surveillance cameras in a robotics company's showroom shows 12 large robots being “kidnapped” by another manufacturer's robot, which convinced them to “quit their jobs” and follow him.

Oddity Central writes about it.

Over the past week, Chinese social media has been buzzing with a strange incident that was reported to have happened back in August at a robotics company's showroom in Shanghai, but was only recently made public. In the footage captured by surveillance cameras, you can see how a small robot sneaks into the exhibition hall at night and slowly approaches a group of larger “colleagues”, and then enters into a dialogue with them. After asking them if they're working overtime, the little robot somehow manages to talk the other two into “going home” with him, and then after…