New Delhi:
Galgotias University has been asked to vacate the expo area of the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, sources 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.
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.
She stated that Galgotias University’s Centre of Excellence had developed “Orion”.
A separate clip from an interview showed a university professor making the same claim, telling a reporter that the robot had been built at the Centre of Excellence. Social media users quickly identified the machine as the imported Unitree Go2 and accused the university of passing off foreign technology as an Indian innovation.
In response, Galgotias University posted a statement on X, formerly Twitter. It said the robotic dog had been procured from Unitree and was being used purely as a learning tool for students. The university insisted it had never claimed to have built the device,
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