"A private Indian university was booted from a top artificial intelligence summit in New Delhi on Wednesday after one of its staffers displayed a commercially available robotic dog made in China, claiming it was the university's own innovation. According to two government officials, Galgotias University was ordered to take down its stand at the summit a day after the university's professor of communications, Neha Singh, told state-run broadcaster DD News that robotic dog Orion was developed by the Centre of Excellence at the university."
"Internet users, however, quickly identified the robot as the Unitree Go2, sold by China's Unitree Robotics with a starting price tag of $1,600 and used widely in research and education. On Wednesday, Singh told reporters she never explicitly claimed the dog was university's own creation, but only an exhibit. The incident was an embarrassment for host country India, the two government officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media."
Galgotias University was ordered to remove its stand at a New Delhi artificial intelligence summit after a staffer displayed a commercially available robotic dog and presented it as the university's creation. Internet users identified the device as the Unitree Go2, sold by China's Unitree Robotics with a starting price of $1,600 and commonly used in research and education. The university later apologized, saying the representative was not authorized to speak to media and was ill-informed, and called the episode confusing. Government officials called the incident an embarrassment amid efforts to position India as a global AI and manufacturing hub emphasizing credibility.
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