The New Delhi Artificial Intelligence Summit (India AI Impact Summit), aimed at making India the "global AI center," staged an extremely embarrassing international joke.
An exhibitor from a university called Galgotias University proudly pointed to a robotic dog on the ground in front of the official media and said, "Look, this is the robotic dog 'Orion' developed independently by our Excellence Center."
As soon as the video went viral, netizens burst into laughter. This is not the "Light of India"; it is clearly the Go2 robotic dog mass-produced by a Chinese drone manufacturer! You can even buy a ready-made one online for $2,200 (about 16,000 yuan).
After the incident was exposed, India's reaction was also extremely amusing: At first, the professor on camera deflected blame, saying, "You didn't understand my meaning; I was misunderstood"; then the university issued a statement, stubbornly claiming it was all a "slander campaign," and they were just doing "programming" on the dog's body to teach students. The final result was that the university's booth was directly cut off from electricity by the authorities, and it was empty; even the Indian IT minister hurriedly deleted the previously praising reposted video.
This incident is not absurd due to the forgery but rather because of a "nested contempt chain" in the tech circle.
Back in the day (here's a bit of industry background), when China's robotic dog first came out, it was "copying" the American Boston Dynamics' robotic dog "Spot." Everyone was mocking Chinese companies for their "pixel-level plagiarism" of others' appearance and gait.
But who would have thought, karma comes around, and India has come to copy China! This is directly buying goods in Yiwu and then labeling it as a "major national project"!
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