Indian professor’s robot dog claim at AI summit sparks uproar

NEW DELHI: An Indian professor has sparked ridicule after falsely suggesting a Chinese-made robot dog displayed at a major AI summit in New Delhi was developed by her university.

The silver mechanical dog — a model sold by Chinese startup Unitree — appeared at a booth run by the private Galgotias University at this week’s AI Impact Summit.

Following online uproar over the professor’s claim in a televised interview on Tuesday, Galgotias said that while it did not build the machine, “what we are building are minds that will soon design, engineer, and manufacture such technologies”. “You need to meet Orion,” the professor, Neha Singh, told an Indian TV reporter as the dog performed tricks such as waving at the camera and springing up on its hind legs.