Heavy Crowd on the AI India Impression Summit at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on February 18, 2026.
| Picture Credit score: Sushil Kumar Verma
The India AI Impression Summit’s organisers eliminated a stall put up by Galgotias College on the summit’s expo, authorities officers mentioned on Wednesday (February 18, 2026), after representatives exhibited a robodog (robotic canine) that was imported from China as if it had been an authentic creation.
The product, a Unitree Go2 robotic with a digicam, was featured with representatives from the non-public college on Doordarshan. The general public broadcaster later took down on-line clips it had posted from there.
“We don’t need pointless controversy that threatens to overshadow the nice work different exhibitors are doing,” IT Secretary S. Krishnan mentioned at a press convention. “There must be adherence to some code in order that inauthentic behaviour just isn’t promoted.”
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Galgotias College’s exhibit went viral after it emerged {that a} Unitree Go2 robodog was being proven off with completely different branding.
Galgotias College responds
Galgotias College mentioned in an announcement that it has not constructed robodog, or claimed to have constructed it, including that their mission has all the time been to maintain college students forward of the curve in know-how, and that they’ve persistently introduced in cutting-edge applied sciences from the U.S. to China into campus with this intention.
“The just lately acquired Robodog from Unitree is one such step in that journey. It isn’t merely a machine on show — it’s a classroom in movement. Our college students are experimenting with it, testing its limits, and within the course of, increasing their very own data. Allow us to be clear — Galgotias has not constructed this robodog, neither have we claimed. However what we’re constructing are minds that may quickly design, engineer, and manufacture such applied sciences proper right here in Bharat,” it added.
The Congress social gathering mentioned the federal government was making “a laughing inventory of India globally,” with chief of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi saying that “as a substitute of leveraging India’s expertise and knowledge, the AI summit is a disorganised PR spectacle,” with “Indian knowledge up on the market, [and] Chinese language merchandise showcased.”
Printed – February 18, 2026 11:49 am IST
