New Delhi, Feb 18: Galgotias University, a Greater Noida-based institution, has been directed to vacate its stall at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi after a viral video from the event purportedly showed the university’s representatives displaying a Chinese-made robotic dog as a product of its Centre of Excellence, according to a report in the NDTV.
Galgotias University has been asked to vacate the expo area of the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, sources said as per the NDTV.
They said the Greater Noida-based institution faced immediate action after a viral video from the event showed its representatives presenting a Chinese-made robotic dog as a product developed by the university’s Centre of Excellence.
The robot in question is the Unitree Go2, a commercially available model from the Chinese robotics company Unitree that is sold online in India for between Rs 2 lakh and Rs 3 lakh, the report said.
At the summit the machine was displayed and referred to as “Orion”. A video that spread rapidly on social media captured a woman, identified in reports as a university representative, explaining the robot’s features during a media interaction at the summit. (NDTV)
