Russian Promobot robot saves a girl from being crushed

This is the moment the makers of a Russian robot claim it saved a girl from being crushed - but is everything as it seems? Footage from Perm Polytechnic University, in central Russia, shows Promobot - a'self-teaching' robot - stopping a set of shelves from falling on a little girl after she tried to climb on them. Oleg Kivokurtsev, one of the creators of the robot, claims his machine carried out the manoeuvre all by itself - but his team have been accused of fakery in the past. There have been multiple bizarre incidents involving his creation - including two apparent escape attempts from its testing facility, and another time it started spouting profound answers to a question. While nobody has conclusively disproved the claims, prominent tech websites including Atlas Obscura and BGR have both poured cold water on the Promobot, while many have simply ignored it.