A robotic dog made in China gets an Indian university kicked out of an AI summit (apnews.com)
from schizoidman@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 23:59
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A private Indian university was booted from a top artificial intelligence summit in New Delhi on Wednesday after one of its staffers displayed a commercially available robotic dog made in China, claiming it was the university’s own innovation.

Internet users, however, quickly identified the robot as the Unitree Go2, sold by China’s Unitree Robotics

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world on 19 Feb 00:18 next collapse

On Wednesday, Singh told reporters she never explicitly claimed the dog was university’s own creation, but only an exhibit.

I just thought you guys wanted to see my robodog, jeeez…

BillyClark@piefed.social on 19 Feb 04:05 collapse

They tried to pass off a commercially available robot as their own at an AI summit? Bold move.

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works on 19 Feb 06:27 collapse

A very Indian thing to do.