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False: Bahrain king, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa arrived at Dubai airport with a robot bodyguard.

By: Aswathi K

August 17 2020

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False: Bahrain king, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa arrived at Dubai airport with a robot bodyguard.

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The Verdict False

A video circulating on social media titled as the Bahrain king arrived at Dubai airport with his robot bodyguard is false.

A video circulating on social media titled as the Bahrain king arrived at Dubai airport with his robot bodyguard is false.On research, we found that the person in the viral video with the robot is not Bahrain King Hamad Bin Isa Aa Khalifa. The robot that claimed as the security guard of the king was a commercial entertainment robot named Titan, which was developed by the British company Cyberstein. The video was captured in the 2019- International Defence Exhibition (Idex) event in which Titan walked through the crowd and introduced himself in both Arabic and English languages. The robot Titan is 8feet tall and weighs 60kilograms. Hence, the video of robot Titan walking in an event is falsely shared on social media.

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