Insight: How US military funding propelled China’s robot dogs
China’s Unitree Robotics – the world’s biggest producer of humanoid and canine robots – based designs for its most successful four-legged machines on innovations funded by the U.S. military, according to three top robotics researchers and a former U.S. defense technology official. Unitree’s $1,600 Go2 model, launched in 2023, helped the company rapidly dominate the…