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This is the chilling moment a humanoid robot appeared to attack a crowd at a Chinese festival.
Video footage taken on February 9 shows the human-shaped robot, adorned with a bright jacket, appearing to lunge at a group of people behind a barricade at the Spring Festival Gala in Tianjin, northeast China.
Its erratic movements forced the festival's security to drag it back from the crowd, over fears it may harm someone.
The event organisers reportedly described the incident as a 'simple robot failure.'
They added that the robot had passed previous safety tests, and that additional measures would be put in place to make sure this wouldn't happen again.
Many have expressed deep fears over the rising influence of machines in human lives.
In December, a Tesla engineer was attacked by a robot during a brutal and bloody malfunction at the company's Giga Texas factory near Austin.
Two witnesses watched in horror as their fellow employee was attacked by the machine designed to grab and move freshly cast aluminium car parts.
Its erratic movements forced the festival's security to drag it back from the crowd, over fears it may harm someone
The event organisers reported described the incident as a 'simple robot failure'
Organisers added that the robot had passed previous safety tests
The robot had pinned the man, who was then programming software for two disabled Tesla robots nearby, before sinking its metal claws into the worker's back and arm, leaving a 'trail of blood' along the factory surface.
The incident - which left the victim with an 'open wound' on his left hand - was revealed in a 2021 injury report filed to Travis county and federal regulators, which has been reviewed by DailyMail.com.
And in November, a man was crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it failed to differentiate him from a box of vegetables.
The victim, a robotics company worker in his 40s, was inspecting the machine's sensor at a distribution centre for agricultural produce in South Gyeongsang in the early hours of the morning.
The machine, which was lifting boxes of peppers onto a pallet, grabbed the man with its arm and pushed him against the conveyer belt, crushing his face and chest.
The robot appears to have malfunctioned and identified the man as a box, police sources said.
The victim was transferred to the hospital but died later, according to the South Korean Yonhap news agency.
An official from the Donggoseong Export Agricultural Complex, which owns the plant, called for a 'precise and safe' system to be established in a statement after the incident.
The victim had reportedly filled in to conduct tests originally planned for November 6.
They were pushed back two days due to reported problems with the robot's sensor.