India Tells University To Leave AI Summit After Presenting Chinese Robot as Its Own (reuters.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/18/0922216/india-tells-university-to-leave-ai-summit-after-presenting-chinese-robot-as-its-own
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-tells-university-leave-ai-summit-after-presenting-chinese-robot-its-own-2026-02-18/
> An Indian university has been asked to [1]vacate its stall at the country's flagship AI summit after a staff member was caught presenting a commercially available robotic dog made in China as its own creation, two government sources said.
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> "You need to meet Orion. This has been developed by the Centre of Excellence at Galgotias University," Neha Singh, a professor of communications, told state-run broadcaster DD News this week in remarks that have since gone viral.
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> But social media users quickly identified the robot as the Unitree Go2, sold by China's Unitree Robotics for about $2,800 and widely used in research and education globally. The episode has drawn sharp criticism and has cast an uncomfortable spotlight on India's artificial intelligence ambitions.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-tells-university-leave-ai-summit-after-presenting-chinese-robot-its-own-2026-02-18/
fake it till you make it (Score:2)
Still this does bring up an interesting question, with all their IT talent, how did India miss the AI boom? Here is what Gemini says:
> Key reasons for this lag include:
> Compute Shortage: High costs and limited availability of graphics processing units (GPUs) hampered the training of large, specialized AI models.
> Low R&D Investment: India has historically underinvested in deep-tech R&D, focusing more on service-oriented IT rather than groundbreaking AI development.
> Brain Drain: Despite contributing ~15
Re: (Score:2)
India didn't "miss" the AI boom, they and the Philpines are the mechanical turk behind the broken AI use cases like Waymo taxis and Amazon checkoutless stores.
Also, stop posting AI slop.
"Centre of Excellence" (Score:3)
That's usually analogous to seeing "Democratic Republic" in the name of a country.
Instead of doing the needful... (Score:2)
The University decided to do the shameful.
Musk's playbook (Score:1)
Copying from Elon Musk's playbook only works if you can afford a team of lawyers and you are targeting Silicon Valley VC.