Beeple let a pack of robot dogs loose on the streets of San Francisco on April 18. Each one is a Unitree Go2 quadruped with a hyper-realistic silicone mask glued on top — Elon, Zuck, Bezos, Warhol, Picasso, Beeple himself. Someone filmed the Musk-headed one near Oracle Park. The clip ate X for a week.
What the hardware actually is
Base unit is a Unitree Go2, the $1,600–$3,000 consumer quadruped (EDU Plus jumps to $16,000+). 4D LiDAR, five fish-eye stereo cameras, foot-force sensors, an Intel RealSense D435i, onboard mic and speaker. Masks come from Hyperflesh, the silicone shop that does Hollywood prosthetics. The Node Foundation show in Palo Alto, “Infinite_Loop,” opened the same day. The dogs roam autonomously — no operator, no leash.
How an agent talks to it
Go2 ships unitree_sdk2 over CycloneDDS, ROS2 topics, plus a community WebRTC bridge for Wi-Fi control. Python and C++ both work. An LLM agent can drive the gait, fire preset tricks, read LiDAR, stream camera frames. EDU Plus carries 100 TOPS onboard — enough to host a small VLM locally and skip the cloud round-trip.
That’s why this is suddenly the default chassis for “agent in a body” demos. A $3,000 platform with a real SDK beats a $90,000 research robot every time.
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