“These Artificial Dogs Are Chinese, Not Indian”: Galgotias Expelled From the AI Conference
“These Artificial Dogs Are Chinese, Not Indian”: Galgotias Expelled From the AI Conference
A viral video from the occasion showed the Greater Noida-based institution’s representatives introducing a robotic dog built in China as a product created by the university’s Centre of Excellence, prompting quick action against the institution.
New Delhi: According to sources, Galgotias University has been asked to leave the India AI Impact Summit expo area in New Delhi. A viral video from the occasion showed the Greater Noida-based institution’s representatives introducing a robotic dog built in China as a product created by the university’s Centre of Excellence, prompting quick action against the institution.
The Unitree Go2, a commercially available model from the Chinese robotics company Unitree, is the robot in question. It costs between ₹2 lakh and ₹3 lakh to purchase online in India.
The contraption was on exhibit and called “Orion” at the peak. During a media interaction at the summit, a woman—identified in reports as a university representative—explained the robot’s features in a video that quickly went viral on social media.
“Orion” was created by the Center of Excellence at Galgotias University, she said.
The identical assertion was made by a university professor in a different interview footage, who told a reporter that the robot was constructed at the Centre of Excellence. Social media users accused the institution of misrepresenting foreign technology as an Indian invention after swiftly identifying the machine as the imported Unitree Go2.
Galgotias University responded with a statement on X, the former Twitter. It stated that the robotic dog was purchased from Unitree and was only being utilized as a teaching aid for the pupils. Although its employees claimed on tape that the university had manufactured the device, the university maintained that it had never made such a claim.
“The recently acquired robodog from Unitree is one such step in that journey,” the statement read. “It is a classroom in motion, not just a contraption on exhibit. In the process of playing with it and pushing its boundaries, our kids are learning more. To be clear, neither Galgotias nor we have ever claimed to have constructed this robodog. To be clear, neither Galgotias nor we have claimed to have constructed this robodog. However, we are developing the brains that will soon create, engineer, and produce these technologies in India.”
The university later said in a statement that the criticism was a part of a “propaganda campaign” against it. A Community Note was issued on X for the post itself.
The assertion that the robodog had never been presented as its own was false and deceptive, according to the note. It drew attention to the fact that the university had given the robot the name “Orion” and that its officials had said clearly that their team had created it.
The internet has taken off due to a single misunderstanding. It’s possible that I didn’t express myself clearly enough or that you didn’t fully comprehend what I was trying to communicate. I teach communications, not artificial intelligence, at the School of Management. As far as I’m aware, only you (the media) have heard what the government has stated. As a university, we are standing tall at the expo. Neha, a professor of communications at the university, who had previously asserted that the robot dogs were a Galgotias invention, stated that the robot was brought here solely for projection.
Professor Aishwarya Shrivastava of Galgotias University responded to rumors that she had been ordered to leave the AI Summit expo by saying, “As of now, we have no such information.”
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