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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rajesh Roy

India boots a private university from an AI summit over a robot dog controversy

India AI Summit - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

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.

According to two government officials, Galgotias University was ordered to take down its stand at the summit a day after the university's 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.

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