Nigerian man goes to shopping mall with ‘robot’ he built, video stirs reactions

A video of a Nigerian man at a shopping mall showing off a robot he allegedly built has gone viral.

People in the mall watched in wonder as the robot followed the man around, and some children even came up to them to play.

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A TikTok user, @odmbi, who recorded the video and shared it on the platform, asked the man if he was really the one that built the robot. The man nodded that he was.

The video has received over 9000 likes and more than a thousand comments, with netizens praising the inventor. Some, however, argued that it appeared to be a man in a costume rather than an actual robot.

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Watch the video below

See reactions:

@richkere: “The best brain in the world is in Nigeria, if one can achieve this under this terrible political climate, we can do much more. more power bro.”

@wzziee: “Thé Robot even walk Nigerian 🥰”

@ekesonmoney_: “I’m not a hater, but na guy man dey inside that thing 😂😂”

@olayeni02: “We ask questions as if Africans are not intelligent at all. We’ve made other races believe that they are the most intelligent and that is why they don’t value us.”

@dr_morula: “That’s not a robot,that’s just the exoskeleton.Someone is inside. A real robot’s movement is rhythmic,this one is walking like a Yoruba man. That robot cannot move on its own.”

@kingsley.ekele: “Normally Nigerians are smart, our curse are those old men in agbada.”

@iamrealebere: “You are asking a tech guru how he built his robot 🤖, some people won’t seized to amaze me.”

@kalculus__comedy: “Make iron condemn no see am sha.”

@chinwendutonia: “The robot is truly a Nigerian built, by their step you shall know them.”

@eldoradogroups: “Someone is inside that thing joor.”

@iamifeoluwabunmi: “So the Adidas logo we can all see inside the thing is what na? Abi no be Adidas pant trouser I dey see by the right side so?”

@akingbade.omosebi: “Fah built what nonsense? That’s a costume… Person dey inside am dey move. Machines don’t move that rapid, sensors and signals have to travel to CPU and power has to be delivered efficiently to make parts move, and at times these signals can jam if the code is not efficient, if there is latency issue, if there is network pathway delay, CAN buses n LIN buses… Calibration issues, coordinates issues and all. This ain’t no robot jare.”

@itsrealmartini: “Nor be papa fejiro I Dey see inside that robot so 😂😂”

@the_costumes_empire: “Wow first robot to wear an adidas pant 👏👏”

@stitches_by_purity: “Yeye question, which one is How? So he should start explaining how he built the robot 😳😳”

@blaq_jesus1: “The robot come Dey walk like Tinubu.”

@user6568418028173: “This is great work.”