Indian university kicked out of AI summit over robotic dog claim
發佈日期: 2026-02-19 22:52
TVB News
An Indian university was kicked out of a top artificial intelligence summit in New Delhi, after one of its staff members displayed a commercially available robotic dog, claiming it was the university's own innovation.
The university was asked to take down its stand at the summit one day after the university's professor of communications Neha Singh told the media that robotic dog Orion was developed by the university.
Internet users, however, quickly found the robot to be the Unitree Go2, sold by China's Unitree Robotics and is used widely in research and education.
On Wednesday, Singh tried to clarify by saying she never explicitly claimed the dog was the university's own creation.
After a round of denial, the university apologised for the confusionand said Singh, its representative at the AI summit pavilion, was not authorised to talk to the media and was "ill-informed."
The India AI Impact Summit is attended by at least 20 heads of state and governments, and is billed as a flagship event in the Global South.
