After one of its employees showed off a commercially available robotic dog manufactured in China and claimed it was the university’s own invention, a private Indian university was expelled from a major artificial intelligence event in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Two government officials claim that a day after Neha Singh, a communications professor at Galgotias University, told state-run broadcaster DD News that the university’s Centre of Excellence built the robotic dog Orion, the university was asked to remove its booth at the summit.
However, internet users soon recognised the robot as the Unitree Go2, which is used extensively in research and education and is marketed by China’s Unitree Robotics. It starts at $1,600. Singh told reporters on Wednesday that she had never stated outright that the dog was an exhibit rather than the university’s original creation. The two government officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to address the media, said the event was an embarrassment for the host nation, India.
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