DOGGY DRAMA

Professor's robot dog claim at Al summit sparks uproar

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In a statement posted on social media platform X, the university said: 'Let us be clear — Galgotias has not built this robodog, neither have we claimed'.

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”.