The video is slapstick perfection: a humanoid called AIdol staggers onto a Moscow stage to the Rocky theme, wobbles, waves—and promptly face-plants as handlers rush in with a black sheet. The clip went viral within hours . Its team blamed “calibration issues.” The symbolism is too neat to resist. Russia, punch-drunk on techno-nationalism, is playing catch-up, a week after America’s most controversial CEO was doing the robot dance in Austin—and asking investors for $1 trillion to finance an