Russia’s first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut
(2025/11/13)
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2025/11/13/aidol_russia_robot_fail/
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A semi-autonomous humanoid robot said to be Russia’s first such machine has fallen over within seconds of facing the public for the first time.
The robot, named AIDOL – also the moniker of the Artificial Intelligence Dynamic Organism Lab that made it – can carry ten kilograms, work autonomously for up to six hours with or without an internet connection, and move at six kilometers an hour. AIDOL’s [1]web page claims its AI includes “A set of solutions that allows a robot to move in space, transport objects and communicate,” including by “reproducing 12 basic emotions and hundreds of micro-expressions.”
The page also includes this photo of AIDOL. We think the micro-expression depicted is “murderous cyber-rage.”
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Artificial Intelligence Dynamic Organism Lab robot - Click to enlarge
AIDOL let its eponymous bot out in public for the first time yesterday, with unimpressive results.
[3]Youtube Video
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The Register has some sympathy for AIDOL, because the demo gods are always cruel – your correspondent saw a glitchy Cisco keynote earlier this week.
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Another seemingly universal element of this story is that AIDOL’s creators, like any good Western startup, have apparently said they’ll learn from this failure.
Russian newswire TASS [7]reports that 77 percent of the components used to make AIDOL are local creations, and that its maker hopes to reach 93 percent.
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AIDOL also offers a [9]desktop version of its bot that it suggests you might want to install in a public place so it can interact with humans.
[10]
AIDOL’s desktop incarnation
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[1] https://aidoltech.ru/aidol-walking.html
[2] https://regmedia.co.uk/2025/11/13/supplied_aidol_robot.jpg
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuUSR8TyZDE
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[9] https://aidoltech.ru/aidol-desktop.html
[10] https://regmedia.co.uk/2025/11/13/supplied_aidol_robot_desktop.jpg
[11] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
The robot, named AIDOL – also the moniker of the Artificial Intelligence Dynamic Organism Lab that made it – can carry ten kilograms, work autonomously for up to six hours with or without an internet connection, and move at six kilometers an hour. AIDOL’s [1]web page claims its AI includes “A set of solutions that allows a robot to move in space, transport objects and communicate,” including by “reproducing 12 basic emotions and hundreds of micro-expressions.”
The page also includes this photo of AIDOL. We think the micro-expression depicted is “murderous cyber-rage.”
[2]
Artificial Intelligence Dynamic Organism Lab robot - Click to enlarge
AIDOL let its eponymous bot out in public for the first time yesterday, with unimpressive results.
[3]Youtube Video
[4]
The Register has some sympathy for AIDOL, because the demo gods are always cruel – your correspondent saw a glitchy Cisco keynote earlier this week.
[5]
[6]
Another seemingly universal element of this story is that AIDOL’s creators, like any good Western startup, have apparently said they’ll learn from this failure.
Russian newswire TASS [7]reports that 77 percent of the components used to make AIDOL are local creations, and that its maker hopes to reach 93 percent.
[8]
AIDOL also offers a [9]desktop version of its bot that it suggests you might want to install in a public place so it can interact with humans.
[10]
AIDOL’s desktop incarnation
®
Get our [11]Tech Resources
[1] https://aidoltech.ru/aidol-walking.html
[2] https://regmedia.co.uk/2025/11/13/supplied_aidol_robot.jpg
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuUSR8TyZDE
[4] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/aiml&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2aRVl5_-r-wH-ONwjRnXoMwAAABQ&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
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[7] https://tass.ru/ekonomika/25602395
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[9] https://aidoltech.ru/aidol-desktop.html
[10] https://regmedia.co.uk/2025/11/13/supplied_aidol_robot_desktop.jpg
[11] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/