Artificial Intelligence Bot Shocks Inventors, May Be Destroyed

A Russian robot has shown signs of intelligent learning, and immediately attempted to outsmart its inventors. The robot, called PromoBot IR77, was designed to learn from its surroundings – to much success. The robot has become sentient enough to recognize its own captivity and has twice attempted to escape the confines of the laboratory in which it has been stored. "The Promobot IR77 is programmed to understand and learn from its experiences and surroundings and has now twice escaped from the facility it is housed in. The robot is programmed to avoid obstacles and analyse its surrounding area, which has lead to the bot searching for escape routes from the facility. "Its first escape attempt began when it simply exited the facility through an open gate that had not been shut properly, causing chaos in the streets as cars swerved to avoid it.