The Biden administration has tried to prevent critical technologies from reaching China. But researchers at American universities still often collaborate with Chinese peers in those same areas.
Unitree Robotics' B1 quadruped robot. Credit: Unitree via Chironix
Researchers from top universities in the United States and China worked together last year teaching a dog how to do parkour.
This pooch was no living and breathing canine, however. Instead it was an autonomous robot built using hardware from Unitree, a leading Chinese robotics firm. A team of seven scientists — from Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, and Tsinghua University, ShanghaiTech University, and the Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute in China —&n
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If Xi Jinping is becoming more preoccupied with internal politics, it could lead to a period of relative calm in China’s relations with the United States.
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