Dancing Robot Goes Rogue in California Hot Pot Restaurant

A humanoid robot went haywire in a California hot pot restaurant, recent footage of the incident shows.

Footage of the situation was captured at the HaiDiLao hot pot restaurant in Cupertino, California. Staff members there stepped in to restrain the robot after it began knocking items down from a table during a dancing performance, according to Storyful.

The outlet cited a video posted by Xiaohongshu user @Meooow, who shared the clip on the popular Chinese social media and e-commerce app. The footage shows the robot dancing inside the restaurant while guests enjoy the performance. But chaos soon follows when the robot slaps its hands on a table, causing chopsticks and sauce to go flying, Storyful reported.

"Three people couldn’t hold it back!" @Meooow said in the video caption. "The little guy was too close to the table; it didn’t look like he was intentionally slapping the table," she added in an update to the original video.

USA TODAY contacted HaiDiLao for information about the incident, but has not received a response.

- Author: Michelle Del Rey, USA TODAY