After wild dance goes viral, South Bay restaurant robot returns to its tame routine

The newest employee at Cupertino’s Haidilao hot pot restaurant has made quite a name for herself, himself … er, itself.

What started out as the robot’s routine dance and greeting a few weeks ago ran amok when someone — ahem, a human — accidentally ordered up a high-energy act, according to an employee at the Main Street Cupertino restaurant on Stevens Creek Boulevard.

The resulting mayhem, while short-lived, went viral this week. A video making the rounds shows three staffers restraining the dancing machine’s wildly swinging arms while trying to adjust a remote control device…

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