Unitree Super Athlete AS2-W - YouTube
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Fluid movement, compact yet exceptional. Supports a continuous 16kg payload, with 30+ km unloaded driving range
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Unitree’s AS2-W wheel-leg robot carries 150 kg, costs half of Boston Dynamics Spot
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The AS2-W uses articulated wheel-legs to navigate slopes, stairs, and rough terrain at up to 6 m/s.
Source: Unitree RoboticsChinese robotics firm Unitree has unveiled the Super Athlete AS2-W, a wheel-legged quadruped priced at around $36,700 — roughly half the base cost of Boston Dynamics’ Spot. The robot weighs 25 kg, packs 16 low-inertia motors, and can carry a 150 kg payload across terrain that would stop most industrial machines. For smaller operators who’ve been priced out of Spot’s $75,000–$375,000 range, that gap matters.
The machine
AS2-W combines articulated legs with wheels at each joint, letting it handle both open ground and rough terrain without switching modes. It climbs slopes up to 45°, clears 80 cm obstacles, and tops out at 6 m/s. Unitree says real-time reinforcement learning — an AI approach where the robot refines its movement continuously based on live sensor data, rather than following pre-programmed rules — handles terrain adaptation on the fly. That’s a different philosophy from Spot’s decade-old model-based control system, though no independent field tests comparing the two have been published yet.Navigation kit includes 64–128 line lidar, a high-resolution camera, GPS, Wi-Fi 6, 4G, and Bluetooth 5.2. The robot operates between -20°C and +55°C with IP54 dust and water resistance. A 15,000 mAh battery delivers more than three hours of runtime unloaded (around 33 km range), dropping to roughly two hours with a 16 kg load. Third-party developers can extend behavior via a built-in SDK.
Unitree pitches it at cargo transport in difficult terrain, search-and-rescue, scientific expeditions, and outdoor logistics. It also does breakdancing — the company trained it to demo agility with b-boy moves.
Onboard sensors include 64–128 line lidar, GPS, Wi-Fi 6, and a high-resolution camera array.The risk
The price is genuinely competitive, per Startup Fortune (July 2026), but Western enterprise buyers should weigh one significant concern. Unitree’s commercial platforms — including the Go2 and B1 — have appeared in Chinese People’s Liberation Army exercises equipped with rifles, according to Foundation for Defense of Democracies (May 2026). Unitree signed a non-weaponization pledge in 2022 alongside Boston Dynamics, but enforcement remains an open question. UK and US export controls could restrict future sales or software updates, creating supply-chain uncertainty for any organization that builds workflows around the platform.No official UK or US retail availability has been confirmed. US robotics dealers list the AS2-W as pending official release at approximately $36,700 before tax and freight. European pricing has not been announced.
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Les États-Unis interdisent les robots humanoïdes chinois, au nom de la sécurité nationale - Numerama
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Unitree/NumeramaLa FCC a ajouté les robots humanoïdes et les onduleurs électriques fabriqués à l’étranger à sa liste noire des équipements jugés dangereux pour la sécurité nationale américaine. Une décision qui vise sans le dire la Chine, leader mondial de la robotique avancée.
La liste s’allonge au gré des nouveaux usages.Le 28 juillet 2026, la Federal Communications Commission (FCC), le régulateur américain des télécommunications, a publié un communiqué annonçant l’ajout de deux nouvelles catégories d’équipements à sa « Covered List » : les robots avancés, humanoïdes ou quadrupèdes, ainsi que les onduleurs électriques connectés, dès lors qu’ils sont produits à l’étranger.
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