A humanoid robot was accused of harassment: he touched the buttocks of a journalist

At the DeepFest festival in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), local company QSS presented its first humanoid robot named Muhammad. A curious incident happened to him - the robot shamelessly began to touch the journalist, reports Insider.

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In a DeepFest post at X, Muhammad was described as "Saudi's first human-shaped robot" and as a national project to highlight Saudi Arabia's achievements in artificial intelligence.

The robot, dressed in traditional Saudi clothing, spoke Arabic and English. By the way, recently researchers compared how people and machines cope with different tasks. We suggest you read about this here.

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Unpleasant Incident

Al Arabiya TV channel journalist Rawiya Kassem was reporting while standing right before this robot. Suddenly Muhammad reached out his hand and without any embarrassment touched her buttocks.

The video shows Kassem reacting with a stern look, followed by a raised palm towards Mohammed before continuing her report. Although another humanoid robot achieved more in communicating with people - he became ageneral director of the companyand.

According to QSS, everyone present was warned to maintain a safe distance from the robot. After reviewing the recording of the incident, the company did not find any abnormalities in Muhammad's behavior. However, QSS promised to take additional measures to ensure this does not happen again.

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