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Humanoid Robot’s ‘Fa9la’ Dance Wows IIT Bombay Techfest as Clips Go Viral

Organisers say the on-stage routine was built to demonstrate progress in balance, motion planning and real-time responsiveness.

Overview

  • The humanoid performed a choreographed routine on a main stage at Techfest 2025, surprising attendees who expected a standard demonstration.
  • Videos spread rapidly across Instagram and YouTube within hours, with viewers praising the timing, rhythm and expressive movement.
  • Techfest, billed as Asia’s largest science and technology festival, provided a prominent public setting for the showcase.
  • A post caption credits Bidyut Innovation with the robot’s development, while social posts and outside assessments say it resembles Unitree’s G1 model, a claim not independently confirmed.
  • Set to ‘Fa9la’ (‘Sher-e-Baloch’) by Bahrain-based rapper Flipperachi from the film Dhurandhar, the performance fused engineering with pop culture, and viewers nicknamed the robot “Chitti Dakait.”