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Claim: A Facebook user, Edwuadotv, posted a video of a robot flying a completed building to a site and claimed that it is the latest innovation in infrastructure from Chinese engineers.

Verdict: FALSE. A computer graphics (CG) generalist on TikTok, identified as @Augingenuity, created and edited the video. The video portrays existing movable buildings, which differ from what it depicts.
Full Text
A Facebook user, Edwuadotv, shared a video showing a robotic drone conveying a fully completed building to a residential area on Jan. 19, 2025. He claimed the video is evidence of the latest infrastructural development in developed countries like China. He also said that potential buyers will not spend much to procure such a building, as the completed structure will be driven to the allocated site.
As of Jan. 23, 2025, the video has gained 268 reactions, 12 comments and 36 reshares. The video can be found here and here.
The differing thoughts identified in the comments sections prompted DUBAWA to fact-check the claim.
Verification
DUBAWA used a keyframe from the video on Google Lens to conduct a reverse image search. We traced the source to a TikTok account, @augingenuity, a computer graphics (CG) generalist and three-dimensional (3D) animation specialist.
In the original post, he controlled the animated building with a gamepad, which depicts evidence of visual effect editing. He also used hashtags like #animation and #cgi, which indicated that the video was edited content.
As of Jan. 22, 2025, the TikTok post gained over 32,000 bookmarks, 463,000 reactions, and 8,500 comments since it was posted on June 21, 2024. Within the period, it has also gained over 7 million views.
The video is not the first visual effect content he posted on his page. He had created videos of a large elephant on a pedestrian road dancing to the “Gwo Gwo Gwo” trend, a gigantic robot threatening a popular content creator after losing a grip-strength contest, among many others.
Considering Nigeria’s existing infrastructural innovation, we investigated possible cases of movable buildings. A sample we found on a YouTube real estate post was built in Lagos within 80 hours. The storied building was built in prefabricated bits throughout the timeframe.
Other movable buildings DUBAWA discovered through keyword searches, like here and here, were not airlifted as a ready-made edifice, contradicting the video in the claim.
Conclusion
The video claiming to show a robot airlifting a completed building is false. Our investigation revealed that the video was a digital creation.