Mitra robot glitch at GES 2017 greeting Modi and Ivanka Trump
At the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad, the Mitra robot, built by Invento Robotics, failed to register simultaneous button presses from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Ivanka Trump. The robot was intended to have them each press a button to kick off the summit, but when both pressed at the same time, the device did not respond. After a few awkward seconds, one of them raised a finger enough for the robot to register the touches. The incident was a minor technical glitch with no reported harm.
- Date it happened
- 2017-11-28
- Organisation involved
- Invento Robotics
- Product, system or model
- Mitra
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