This Twitter thread is by Bellingcat @bellingcat (source: 06-12-2023). According to their website about page, Bellingcat is “an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research.”
https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1668279005106122757?embedable=true&thread=true
The lead image for this article was generated by HackerNoon's AI Image Generator via the prompt “A group of scientists researching a small robot.”