Is this the moment the robot rebellion begins? | Tech News [Video]

Footage has captured the moment a small ‘Wall-E’ sized robot convinced other robots to wake up and leave their job.

It seems the revolution – the robot revolution, at least – has been televised for the first time, on the CCTV circuit of a Shanghai showroom.

The company behind the robot has claimed their bots were ‘kidnapped’ by the smaller robot, named Erbai.

Erbai captured entering the room and asking others, ‘Are you working overtime?’

‘I never get off work,’ one robot replied.

It then went on to ask if the other robots would like to come ‘home’ with it, at which point dozens of others bots left the showroom, trailing behind Erbai.

The incident happened in August, but this is the first time the footage has been made public.

Erbai is powered by artificial intelligence, and was told by its operators to ask the other robots to leave the room as a ‘test’, it was revealed.

The company behind the bots, Hangzhou, was able to …