The incident quickly went viral, and sparked a fierce debate about whether the robot actually attacked the woman or had tripped ... say a sentence or recognize a face but not take your kids ...

“Ai-Da is leaning against a makeshift lectern, drawing claw at the ready, her Titianesque locks scattered a tad wildly around her gorgeous face ... is the lot of women, robot or otherwise.

"The human face is one of the highest bandwidth communication ... started to blur the line between what's human and what's robot." One woman at the Cornwall Festival of Tech told BBC Spotlight ...