--- title: Robots Show Up at London Pub Ahead Westworld Season 2 description: A human-like robot showed up in a London pub to get everyone pumped for Westworld season 2, which debuts on HBO on April 22. canonical: https://time.com/5244602/westworld-season-2-robot-prank/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-18T12:40:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:16.228Z og:title: A Robot Showed Up at a Bar And Scared a Bunch of People to Pump You Up for 'Westworld' og:description: It's surprisingly realistic in conversation og:url: https://time.com/5244602/westworld-season-2-robot-prank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Robot Showed Up at a Bar And Scared a Bunch of People to Pump You Up for 'Westworld' twitter:description: It's surprisingly realistic in conversation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A Human-Like Robot Scared a Bunch of People to Get Everybody Pumped for _Westworld_ Season 2 by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Apr 18, 2018 12:40 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Apr 18, 2018 12:40 PM UTC A human-like robot showed up at a pub on earth to freak some people out — and it worked. The [second season of _Westworld_](http://time.com/5133290/westworld-season-2-release-date/), HBO’s epic sci-fi show about a theme park full of artificially intelligent “hosts” premieres Sunday, April 22\. To get people pumped about the robot revolution, NOW TV built humans a new friend Fred, the “ultra-realistic” robot and planted him in a London pub where things proceeded to get strange. Like most _Westworld_ “hosts,” Fred is a bit glitchy, and a generally ominous guy. Unlike on the show, none of the pub patrons endeavored to use him for target practice or more indulgent pursuits. But it turns out Fred is a highly engaging conversation partner. Watch below as people encounter the robot in this fun social experiment. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5244602/westworld-season-2-robot-prank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5244602/westworld-season-2-robot-prank/"},"headline":"A Human-Like Robot Scared a Bunch of People to Get Everybody Pumped for Westworld Season 2","datePublished":"2018-04-18T12:40:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:16.228Z","description":"A human-like robot showed up in a London pub to get everyone pumped for Westworld season 2, which debuts on HBO on April 22.","url":"https://time.com/5244602/westworld-season-2-robot-prank/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Bizarre","westworld","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5244602/westworld-season-2-robot-prank/","name":"A Human-Like Robot Scared a Bunch of People to Get Everybody Pumped for Westworld Season 2"}}]}] ```