THE controversy over a made-in-China robot is embarrassing for a nation that aspires to become an AI powerhouse. Greater Noida-based Galgotias University was told to vacate its stall at the India AI Impact Summit after one of its professors apparently tried to pass off Unitree Go2 — a robotic dog made by a pioneering Chinese company — as its own innovation. The university eventually apologised, attributing the unsavoury episode to an “ill-informed” representative, while IT Secretary S Krishnan asserted that the government did not want any exhibitor to display items that were not their own. Despite the exercise in damage…