How U.S. military funding propelled China’s robot dogs
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China's Unitree Robotics developed its humanoid and quadruped robot designs based on innovations funded by the U.S. military. This revelation highlights cross-national influences in advanced robotics technology development.
WASHINGTON, Aug 18 - China’s Unitree Robotics – among the world's biggest producers of humanoid and quadruped robots – based designs for its most successful robot dogs on innovations funded by the U.S. military, according to a former U.S. defense technology official and three top researchers involved in the project.