India, Nov. 21 -- In an escape plan that may rival a Disney or Pixar film plot, a tiny robot named Erbai "kidnapped" 12 larger robots from a robotics company's showroom in China's Shanghai, China. The robots were seen leaving at night on a CCTV camera installed inside the showroom.

In a short video, that has now gone viral on social media, Erbai, an AI-powered robot built by a Hangzhou-based manufacturer can he heard engaging in a conversation with the other showroom robots.

"Are you working overtime?" Erbai asks the other robots. "I never get off work", one of them replies. "So you're not going home?" it asks, to which the robot answers. "I don't have a home."

Erbai was then seeing coaxing the larger robots to leave their workstations...