Milo, a Fully Autonomous Indoor/Outdoor Robotic Guide Dog - 2026-07-21 - Research Publication - Milo modifies a Unitree Go2 with onboard compute, additional sensors and a guide handle. The fully onboard system was evaluated in real indoor and outdoor obstacle courses while avoiding obstacles and pedestrians. The… - source: arxiv.org
Calf-Integrated Arms for Bimanual Quadruped Loco-Manipulation - 2026-07-07 - Research Publication - Most quadruped loco-manipulation designs trade manipulation capability against stance. The paper integrates a manipulator with a prismatic slider, two revolute joints, and a gripper into each front calf of a Unitree Go2. - source: arxiv.org
TypeGo: An OS Runtime for Embodied Agents - 2026-07-06 - Research Publication - Large language models (LLMs) can plan behavior for embodied agents from natural language, but treating the LLM as a request/response oracle on the critical path is fundamentally at odds with real-time control and… - source: arxiv.org
Unleashing Infinite Motion: Scaling Expressive Quadrupedal Motion via Generative Video Priors - 2026-06-26 - Research Publication - Quadruped robots have achieved remarkable locomotion, yet their behavioral repertoire remains confined to a few gaits--far from the expressive, companion-like presence long envisioned for them. To make naively-drifting… - source: arxiv.org
CacheMPC: Certified Cached Model Predictive Control for Quadruped Locomotion - 2026-06-26 - Research Publication - The certificate's contribution to closed-loop safety is not resolvable at the present sample size. A bounded-budget controller schedule combines top-K certified retrieval, a deadline-bounded QP solve, and a shifted… - source: arxiv.org
MPC-Injection: Biasing Off-Policy Locomotion RL Toward Controller-Induced Behavior Basins - 2026-06-24 - Research Publication - The authors present MPC-Injection, a low-overhead method that steers RL toward a designer-preferred gait by inserting transitions into the replay buffer from a model predictive controller solving the same Markov decision… - source: arxiv.org
RoboAtlas paper evaluates contextual active SLAM on Unitree Go2 - 2026-06-24 - Research Publication - RoboAtlas combines frontier exploration, global semantic-map reasoning, and egocentric VLM reasoning for contextual Active SLAM. The system is evaluated on a Unitree Go2 in real-world environments exceeding 1,800 square… - source: arxiv.org
StairMaster paper deploys hollow-stair locomotion policy on Unitree Go2 - 2026-06-24 - Research Publication - StairMaster is a three-stage reinforcement-learning framework for quadruped locomotion on risky hollow stairs. The paper deploys the policy on a Unitree Go2 robot and reports zero-shot stair climbing up to a 55-degree… - source: arxiv.org
fARfetch: Enabling Collocated AR-HRC in Large Visually Diverse Environments with VLM-Driven AR Content Adaptation - 2026-06-23 - Research Publication - The arXiv paper uses Unitree Go2 for collocated augmented-reality human-robot collaboration in visually diverse environments. The study’s named evaluation platform is Go2 from Unitree. - source: arxiv.org
ForEnt dataset paper collects forest-entrapment data with Unitree Go2 - 2026-06-18 - Research Publication - ForEnt is a multi-modal dataset for studying quadruped robot entrapments in forest environments. The dataset is collected with a Unitree Go2 quadruped across eight forest sites to characterize vegetation-related failure… - source: arxiv.org
SemGeoNav paper evaluates safety-guided visual navigation on Unitree Go2 - 2026-06-15 - Research Publication - SemGeoNav integrates semantic reasoning with geometric planning for safer visual navigation in open environments. The approach is evaluated on a Unitree Go2 quadruped robot in real-world navigation experiments. - source: arxiv.org
FlashNav paper trains deployable navigation policies for Unitree Go2 within seconds - 2026-06-14 - Research Publication - FlashNav is a GPU-first framework for ultra-fast range-based robot navigation policy training. Experiments include TurtleBot2 and Unitree Go2, with deployable policies trained in seconds-level wall-clock time. - source: arxiv.org
LoComposition paper deploys terrain-adaptive quadruped locomotion on Unitree Go2 - 2026-06-14 - Research Publication - LoComposition decomposes quadruped locomotion into task rewards, operational constraints, energy minimization, and terrain-adaptive exteroceptive perception. The paper reports robust zero-shot deployment on a physical… - source: arxiv.org
nomagiclab/kine2go-pipeline - 2026-06-12 - Research Publication - The artifacts produced with this pipeline are published as the kine2go dataset on HuggingFace. Stage details Retargeting ( motion retargeting/ ) bash uv run -m motion retargeting.main \ --motion-path --dataset-name… - source: github.com
Kine2Go paper releases kinematic dataset for Unitree Go2 gaits and motions - 2026-06-12 - Research Publication - Kine2Go introduces a kinematic dataset for the Unitree Go2 robot covering diverse gaits and motions. The dataset contains 800 gait-kinematics trajectory records derived from 40 distinct policies and translated to a… - source: arxiv.org
AgniNav paper transfers monocular local navigation to Unitree Go2 - 2026-06-09 - Research Publication - Researchers published AgniNav and documented cross-embodiment monocular navigation experiments that included a Unitree Go2. AgniNav standardizes cross-embodiment monocular local navigation through a configurable… - source: arxiv.org
Bayesian Optimization for Learning Nonlinear MPC in Autonomous Agent Navigation - 2026-06-08 - Research Publication - The authors propose a map-free framework that tightly integrates reactive rolling-horizon planning with nonlinear Model Predictive Control (MPC). The proposed framework is robot-agnostic and is evaluated on the Unitree Go2… - source: arxiv.org
Semantic-skill discovery paper validates multi-quadruped coordination on Unitree Go2 teams - 2026-06-06 - Research Publication - Researchers published a semantic-skill discovery method and validated coordinated rollouts with teams of Unitree Go2 quadrupeds. The paper studies continual quadruped robot coordination through semantic skill discovery.… - source: arxiv.org
Library service-robot navigation paper builds ROS 2 stack on Unitree Go2 Edu - 2026-06-02 - Research Publication - The paper presents a ROS 2 autonomous-navigation system for a Unitree Go2 Edu quadruped operating in library aisles and cluttered reader spaces. The stack combines RTAB-Map, AMCL, EKF sensor fusion, Nav2 planning, A*, and… - source: arxiv.org
PlatonicNav: Unveiling Semantic Correspondence in Navigation with Platonic Topological Maps - 2026-06-01 - Research Publication - Embodied visual navigation, where an agent perceives a complex environment and acts to reach a goal from raw sensory input, underpins a wide range of applications such as household service robotics, assistive robotics, and… - source: arxiv.org
V4C38/spectacles-dimensional-os - 2026-05-30 - Research Publication - Dimensional OS (DimOS) is an open-source robot operating system that runs the physical robot stack. While navigating, the yellow direction disc animates toward the commanded heading; release or cancel to stop. - source: github.com
High-Load-Density Electro-Permanent Magnetic Foot with Controllable Adhesion for Quadruped Wall-Climbing Robots - 2026-05-29 - Research Publication - To enable reliable climbing locomotion of quadruped robots on ferromagnetic surfaces, this paper presents a high-load-density electro-permanent magnetic foot with controllable adhesion, featuring force-feedback circular… - source: arxiv.org
TravExplorer: Cross-Floor Embodied Exploration via Traversability-Aware 3-D Planning - 2026-05-19 - Research Publication - This article presents TravExplorer, a cross-floor embodied exploration framework that couples zero-shot semantic guidance with traversability-aware 3-D planning. Fifty real-world trials on a Unitree Go2 further validate… - source: arxiv.org
Quadruped Parkour Learning: Sparsely Gated Mixture of Experts with Visual Input - 2026-04-21 - Research Publication - Robotic parkour provides a compelling benchmark for advancing locomotion over highly challenging terrain, including large discontinuities such as elevated steps. Experimental results on a real Unitree Go2 quadruped robot… - source: arxiv.org