An Indian university has been ordered to vacate its stall at the AI Impact Summit after a professor presented a Chinese-made robotic dog as an original creation. Neha Singh, a communications professor at Galgotias University, claimed the Unitree Go2 robot was developed by their Centre of Excellence during a broadcast on state-run DD News.

Social media users quickly identified the $2,800 robot as the commercially available Unitree Go2, sold by China's Unitree Robotics and widely used in research globally. The incident drew sharp criticism and embarrassed the Indian government, particularly after IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw shared the video on his official social media account before deleting it amid backlash.

Both Galgotias University and Singh have since clarified that the robot was never claimed as their creation. The university's stall remained open Wednesday morning with officials fielding questions about plagiarism accusations. The India AI Impact summit at Bharat Mandapam, billed as the first major AI gathering in the Global South, has attracted over $100 billion in investment pledges from companies including the Adani Group, Microsoft, and data center firm Yotta.