Recently, a video has gone viral on social media platforms showing two Indian classical dancers performing with a claim that they aren’t real dancers but Chinese robots.
A Facebook user shared the video with the caption, “Watch this dance carefully. The dance is being performed at Disneyland in Shanghai*. *These two are not human dancers, but two Chinese-made robots*. *The duration of the dance is only five minutes. But the waiting time to buy a ticket to watch this dance is 4 hours. The ticket price to watch this dance is 499 yuan, which is equivalent to 75 dollxars*. *The facial expressions of the robots are perfect and it is difficult to distinguish them from real humans.* (sic)”
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral video and found it to be shared with a false claim.
On performing Reverse Image Search, we found a longer version of the video uploaded on YouTube on August 11, 2017. The video was uploaded on the ‘Indian Raga’ channel with the caption, “Vahana Alarippu: Bharatanatyam Dance | Best of Indian Classical Dance.”
As per the description of the video, Sophia Salingaros and Isha Parupudi can be seen performing in the video, who are Indian classical dancers based in the US.
NewsMobile had earlier debunked a similar claim about “robot dancers” that can be read below.
https://newsmobile.in/articles/2021/06/14/fact-check-no-this-video-does-not-show-robots-dancing-at-shanghai-disneyland-claim-is-fake/
Therefore, with the above information, it can be concluded that the viral video is being shared with a false claim.
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