How Unitree democratized legged robotics

In the USA they are so brainwashed by capitalism they think democracy is when you can afford a product if you're wealthy.

Here’s the article: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/i-spent-4000-on-a-robot-dog-from-china/

This is the best part:

As I entered my own neighborhood, I glanced at two indicators in the corner of my phone screen. One showed that the robot’s battery was at 5 percent—dangerously close to empty. The other showed the internal temperature was 84°C (183°F).

We were within sight of my front door when the robot suddenly collapsed. I’m not sure if it ran out of power or overheated, but either way it didn’t shut down gracefully—it rolled onto its back with its legs in the air.

This dog can aim lasers in my enemies eyes, can your real dog do that? Thought not. /s

Can't eat a robot dog

Meh, Benn Jordan did it better.

I think his offer still stands that, despite humanoid robots being stupid, if Unitree sends him one he will film himself having a boxing match with it.

I paid money to have a foreign surveillance platform in my own home!

1. Reprogram it to seek out and destroy Flock cameras.
2. Release it into the wild.
3. Watch it shit the bed before it gets out of your front yard.

On the negligible chance that it actually succeeds at destroying a Flock camera (or more likely blocks traffic or something), blame the dog and get out of any consequences. It worked for OpenAI in the Huggingface incident.