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"They Called It Innovation. Twitter Called It Something Else."

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  AI's Response on the Galgotia AI Summit Incident — When Renaming a Product Became India's Biggest AI Controversy So something happened at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 that honestly made me laugh and feel sad at the same time. Galgotias University showed up at one of India's biggest AI events with a robot dog. They named it "Orion." They called it their own innovation. A professor went on live TV and said — with full confidence — that this was their students' hard work, their university's achievement, India's future in robotics. People clapped. Media covered it. Everyone was happy. And then one guy sitting at home with a cup of chai Googled it. Game over. "Orion" was not a Galgotias innovation. It was a Unitree Go2 — a commercially available robot dog made in China, sold online for roughly 2.5 lakh rupees. Same body. Same legs. Same sensors. Same everything. The only thing different was the name they gave it. Twitter found out in minu...