Reuters: US Army-Funded Research Seeded Unitree's Robot Dogs, MIT Engineer Says Dimensions Match 'to the Millimetre'

Reuters traces Unitree's dominant Go-series quadrupeds back to openly published US Army and DARPA-funded work at MIT's Biomimetic Robotics Lab and UPenn. Ex-MIT researcher Ben Katz says the Go frame dimensions match his Mini Cheetah 'to the millimetre'; UPenn's Gavin Kenneally calls the military-funded project the origin of 'basically the first Unitree robot that had any kind of scale.' The story lands as Unitree's Shanghai IPO explodes 629% and the FCC moves to ban imports of its robots on security grounds.