News Summary

• Unitree Robotics sold more than 5,500 humanoids and 18,000 quadrupeds last year.
• The breakthroughs behind its best-selling robot dogs were funded by the u.s. military.
• Unitree founder Wang Xingxing cited MIT’s research and one of the Army-funded UPenn papers in his own 2016 thesis.
• The research was deliberately published openly, as is standard practice in academia, to help advance the field.
• The Pentagon added Unitree to its list of Chinese military companies in June.