Manuel Salinas, inventor of the famous Arturito robot that claims to have discovered gold on Robinson Crusoe Island, walked out of his own scientific presentation on Wednesday after students and professors at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (USM) laughed at his speech.
Those present at the meeting criticized the presentation as being too brief and uninformative. The speech lasted five minutes.
After Salinas finished, those present bombarded the inventor with questions about how the robot functioned. After several rounds of less than satisfactory responses, one physics professor, Patricio Häberle, stood up and said, “there is no way that this robot can function in the way that (Salinas) has described to us.”
While the robot is credited with discovering a large weapons cache at Colonia Dignidad, a right-wing paramilitary compound in the south of Chile, as well as the body of businessman Francisco Yuraszeck, who went missing in 2004, many still seem hesitant to believe the robot is capable of everything Salinas claims it can do.
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