Forget Galgotias University, meet PARAM - the Made-in-India robot dog built by an Indian startup

Amid the controversy surrounding Galgotias University for displaying a Chinese-made robot dog at the ongoing India AI Impact Summit, videos of another quadruped robot developed by an Indian startup have surfaced online.

The robot, named PARAM, has been built by Bengaluru-based startup General Autonomy, which described it as a fully indigenous machine.

“Enough of this nonsense! Presenting PARAM: India’s most powerful indigenous robot dog. Not assembled, not bought — built in India, built by Indians. For our nation, for our century, for our world,” the startup said in a post on X while sharing the video.



General Autonomy has also pinned an earlier post showing the robot being demonstrated to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In December, the company had shared another video showing PARAM interacting with a street dog in Bengaluru, highlighting its real-world mobility and sensing capabilities.

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Galgotias University in Uttar Pradesh found itself at the centre of a controversy after a robotic dog displayed at the India AI Impact Summit was allegedly presented as an in-house innovation but was later identified as a Chinese-made machine.

At the summit, university representatives introduced a robot dog named Orion, claiming it had been developed by the institution’s Centre of Excellence. However, social media users soon pointed out that the robot appeared to be the Unitree Go2, a quadruped robot manufactured by China-based Unitree Robotics and widely used in research and robotics training worldwide.


Following the backlash, the university initially attempted to defend its claim. Later, summit organisers reportedly cut power to the stall and asked the university to vacate the space. The institution subsequently issued a formal apology, attributing the confusion to a staff member who was unaware of the robot’s technical origins.

All about PARAM

PARAM is powered by an Nvidia Jetson GPU and specialised actuators, which are reportedly the only non-Indian components in the system. General Autonomy focuses on building home robots and the artificial intelligence systems that power them.

The startup was founded in 2023 by Farid Ahsan and Bhanu Pratap Singh.

Speaking about the company’s vision earlier, Ahsan said the mission of General Autonomy is to “revolutionise the future of factories.”

“Factories are complex puzzles, and automation is the key to seeing the full picture, leading to safer, more efficient, and standardised production. With a vision to make mass manufacturing agile and distributed like software development, we're based in Bengaluru but working globally,” he said.