A humanoid robot in a hospital gown runs through a street café as police chase it: real or AI?

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AI-MADE

A machine made this.

How sure we areVery high

Based on 1 strong and 1 supporting pieces of evidence.

What we found

The clip shows a humanoid robot with white panels and black joints, dressed in a blue hospital gown, running through a street while police chase it and people jump out of the way. It was posted on X on 13 September 2026 with a caption saying the robot turned and ran on its own and that this was not staged. Similar clips appeared on TikTok, Facebook and YouTube. Lead Stories, a fact-checking organisation, looked at the whole group of videos on 22 September 2026 and found that all of them were made with AI and showed no real events. It found shop signs with nonsense names and upside-down letters, and athletic moves that are not possible. A Community Note on the X post also says videos of this kind are AI-generated. Lead Stories suggests searching the news for reports of the event before believing a clip like this.

Key facts

Original source: Posted on X by @Vynqorxe
First published: Not recorded
Earlier appearances: Not recorded
The claim you saw: No caption recorded
Signs of AI: Yes. Shown below, but not what decided it

The evidence, strongest first

Strong Decides the answer

Published fact-checkLead Stories, 22 September 2026↗

Supporting Points the same way

Community NoteCommunity Note on the X post, rated helpful↗

Weak Shown, not relied on

How it looksLook at the shop signs in the background: one storefront is named 'DNNN' and other lettering does not spell real words. The robot sprints, dodges chairs and never wobbles, which is far beyond what real humanoid robots can do today. No news outlet or police force has reported any such incident.

Detector scores are often wrong, so they never decide a verdict here.

What we couldn’t establish

Exactly how it was made, and with which prompts, beyond what the sources above say. If you know more, tell us.

Bottom line

Made by AI: a published fact-check traced it.

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