How Unitree's Go series, which helped the company dominate the quadruped robot market, drew on openly published US university research funded by the US military (Michael Martina/Reuters)

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https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/how-us-military-funding-propelled-chinas-robot-dogs-2026-08-18/">How Unitree's Go series, which helped the company dominate the quadruped robot market, drew on openly published US university research funded by the US military — China's Unitree Robotics - among the world's biggest producers of humanoid and quadruped robots - based designs …