'Runaway' robot will greet travellers on Moscow Metro

A robot with a history of running away from its creators may seem like an odd choice to welcome travellers on Russia's transport network. But Moscow's Metro bosses have decided to employ the services of Metrosha, a quirky machine who will greet people arriving at the city's main subway station. The unusual android is based on the promobot, or promotional robot, which hit headlines last summer when it made a break for freedom from its testing laboratory. Moscow's Metro bosses are employing the services of Metrosha, a quirky robot who will greet people arriving at the city's main subway station on special occasions and public holidays Metrosha is based on promobot - short for Promotional Robot - a unique robot created by Russian scientists and is designed to work in customer relations. Promobot was designed for companies to use it to attract new customers.