A demonstration about the impact of AI and robotics on jobs put roughly 30 robots on the pavement alongside its message. On September 7, humanoids and quadruped robots appeared outside Poland’s Ministry of Digital Affairs in Warsaw, carrying flags and moving in circles.

The machines were not independently protesting. The event was staged by Democratism, an initiative seeking public debate over automation and the labor market. Chants were played through loudspeakers, and robots including an AgiBot A3 operated by Delta Robots took part.

Poland’s digital affairs minister also met the organizers. The visual argument was unusually literal: to warn that robots may replace human work, the organizers recruited robots to perform the protest itself.