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)

Unitree’s Go series of quadruped robots incorporates technologies originally disclosed in U.S. university papers that were funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. The company leveraged that open research to accelerate development, enabling it to capture a dominant share of the commercial quadruped market.