A robot was arrested in Russia, but "did not put up any resistance"

At a political rally in Moscow, police are reported to have attempted to handcuff and detain an activist called Promobot. The event at which the futuristic fracas occurred was in support of Valery Kalachev, a candidate for Russia's parliament. Kalachev was using the automaton to record the opinions and reactions of the crowd for future processing. Apparently that didn't sit well with Russian police officers, who "asked to remove the robot … and even tried to handcuff him," according to the robot's makers, who added that "the robot did not put up any resistance." There is, of course, a whiff of publicity stunt about the whole thing--buoyed by the fact that Promobot already has a track record for getting into scrapes.