{"id":476125,"date":"2026-02-18T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476125\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:20:08","slug":"galgotias-university-booted-from-india-ai-impact-summit-over-robot-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476125\/","title":{"rendered":"Galgotias University booted from India AI Impact summit over robot dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 A private Indian university was booted from a top artificial intelligence summit<\/a> in New Delhi on Wednesday after one of its staffers displayed a commercially available robotic dog made in China, claiming it was the university\u2019s own innovation.<\/p>\n

According to two government officials, Galgotias University was ordered to take down its stand at the summit a day after the university\u2019s professor of communications, Neha Singh, told state-run broadcaster DD News that robotic dog Orion was developed by the Centre of Excellence at the university. <\/p>\n

Internet users, however, quickly identified the robot as the Unitree Go2, sold by China\u2019s Unitree Robotics with a starting price tag of $1,600 and used widely in research and education.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Singh told reporters she never explicitly claimed the dog was university\u2019s own creation, but only an exhibit.<\/p>\n

The incident was an embarrassment for host country India, the two government officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media. <\/p>\n

A statement from Galgotias on Tuesday said the university was \u201cdeeply pained\u201d and described the incident as a \u201cpropaganda campaign\u201d that could spread negativity and harm the morale of students working to innovate, learn and build their skills using global technologies.<\/p>\n

Then, in a new statement on Wednesday, the university apologized for the confusion and said Singh, its representative at the AI summit pavilion, was not authorized to talk to the media and was \u201cill-informed.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cShe was not aware of the technical origins of the product and in her enthusiasm at being on camera, gave factually incorrect information,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if the university had removed its booth from the summit.<\/p>\n

Still, the episode underscores the high stakes for India as it tries to cast itself as a global hub for AI and advanced manufacturing, drawing billions of dollars in investments<\/a> while stressing credibility and local innovation.<\/p>\n

The summit kicked off on Monday with some organizational hiccups as attendees and exhibitors reported long queues and delays at the venue. Several exhibitors took to social media to complain that their personal belonging and products on display were stolen. Organizers later said the items were recovered and returned.<\/p>\n

The India AI Impact Summit, billed as a flagship event in the Global South, is attended by at least 20 heads of state and governments, including French President Emmanuel Macron and Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva. <\/p>\n

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a> will address a session Thursday. <\/p>\n

Also expected to attend are Google\u2019s Chief Executive Sundar Pichai, Qualcomm\u2019s CEO Cristiano Amon, OpenAI\u2019s CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft\u2019s President Brad Smith and AMI Labs Executive Chairman Yann LeCun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 A private Indian university was booted from a top artificial intelligence summit in New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,4613,181,507,1204,7251,19426,28,144,119429,5607,793,851,19424,1536,5,6298,22997,111,15649,8007,7047,200479,27247,74,965,32254],"class_list":{"0":"post-476125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alphabet","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-asia-pacific","13":"tag-brad-smith","14":"tag-brazil-government","15":"tag-business","16":"tag-china","17":"tag-cristiano-amon","18":"tag-emmanuel-macron","19":"tag-general-news","20":"tag-inc","21":"tag-luiz-incio-lula-da-silva","22":"tag-microsoft-corp","23":"tag-narendra-modi","24":"tag-new-delhi","25":"tag-openai-inc","26":"tag-politics","27":"tag-qualcomm","28":"tag-robotics","29":"tag-sam-altman","30":"tag-send-to-apple-news","31":"tag-sundar-pichai","32":"tag-technology","33":"tag-world-news","34":"tag-yann-lecun"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}