{"id":12726,"date":"2025-09-03T09:25:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/?post_type=campus_story&#038;p=12726"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:25:35","slug":"robotic-dog-fetches-attention-to-new-major-at-uw-eau-claire","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/robotic-dog-fetches-attention-to-new-major-at-uw-eau-claire\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotic dog fetches attention to new major at UW-Eau Claire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2025\/07\/EAU_robotic-dog_20250711_Robotics_18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12729\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2025\/07\/EAU_robotic-dog_20250711_Robotics_18-1024x553.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of robotic dog at UW-Eau Claire\" width=\"1024\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2025\/07\/EAU_robotic-dog_20250711_Robotics_18-1024x553.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2025\/07\/EAU_robotic-dog_20250711_Robotics_18-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2025\/07\/EAU_robotic-dog_20250711_Robotics_18-768x415.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2025\/07\/EAU_robotic-dog_20250711_Robotics_18-1536x829.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2025\/07\/EAU_robotic-dog_20250711_Robotics_18-2048x1106.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not unusual to see people walking their dogs across the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire campus.<\/p>\n<p>What is unusual is one dog that is walked not with a leash, but with a remote control.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cdog,\u201d known by its manufactured name of \u201cUnitree Go 2,\u201d is part of a new program major in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwec.edu\/academics\/programs\/undergraduate\/assistive-systems-and-robotics-engineering\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"433194fe-ce78-4565-bab4-918af8b6d050\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\">assistive systems and robotics engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But there is more to this than having a robotic dog walking around campus. The work Blugolds will do could lead to programs in assistive services for things like helping an elderly person stay independent in their own home or assisting emergency personnel in a crisis.<\/p>\n<p>But before all that happens, students will be working in the classroom and the lab to make sure this quadruped robot can navigate the human world.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/QNtrXLH4bgs?si=Tmt-vZBc_HMvTM4F\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Written by UW-Eau Claire<\/p>\n<p>Link to original story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwec.edu\/stories\/robotic-dog-fetches-attention-new-major-uw-eau-claire\">https:\/\/www.uwec.edu\/stories\/robotic-dog-fetches-attention-new-major-uw-eau-claire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not unusual to see people walking their dogs across the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire campus. What is unusual is one dog that is walked not with a leash, but with a remote control. The \u201cdog,\u201d known by its manufactured name of \u201cUnitree Go 2,\u201d is part of a new program major in\u00a0assistive systems and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","institution":[96],"story_category":[],"class_list":["post-12726","campus_story","type-campus_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","institution-uw-eau-claire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story\/12726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/campus_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=12726"},{"taxonomy":"story_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_category?post=12726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}