Go2-W
About
About Go2-W
Go2-W adds driven seven-inch pneumatic wheels to Unitree’s articulated quadruped architecture. The wheel-leg configuration rolls efficiently across roads and indoor floors, then uses leg movement to climb stairs, cross uneven ground and overcome obstacles reaching approximately 70 centimetres.
The robot weighs around 18 kilograms and supports optional lidar configurations for SLAM navigation and autonomous development. Peripheral mounting points accept cameras, compute and other equipment. Unitree provides developer tools and reinforcement-learning resources for mobility research, inspection and all-terrain robot applications.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Workflows: Wheel-leg traversal, stairs, obstacle crossing, app control, secondary development and sensor-enabled mobility.
- Operating environments: Outdoor field environment
- Target markets: Developers, researchers, education users and teams testing lower-cost quadruped mobility.
- Deployment model: Commercial product in Unitree's Go-series ecosystem.
- Navigation and obstacle avoidance
Research demonstration - 2026-06-19 - The paper builds a deep-reinforcement-learning locomotion controller and autonomous navigation system for the commercially available Go2-W.
Source - Autonomous route navigation
Research demonstration - 2026-06-19 - The paper builds a deep-reinforcement-learning locomotion controller and autonomous navigation system for the commercially available Go2-W.
Source - Multi-terrain locomotion
Claimed - Go2-W combines wheeled travel with legged traversal across mixed outdoor terrain. - environment: stairs and mixed outdoor terrain
Source - Stair climbing
Claimed - Go2-W uses its wheeled-leg configuration to traverse stairs. - environment: stairs and mixed outdoor terrain
Source
Research
- Racing a Wheeled Quadruped: Active Load Transfer Mitigation via Model Predictive Control
2026-06-24 - Research Publication - This paper presents a hierarchical control framework using model predictive control (MPC) and reinforcement learning (RL) for active roll control to manage lateral load transfer during autonomous racing of a wheeled quadruped. The framework integrates offline time-optimal raceline generation, an online MPC planner that actively minimizes the lateral Load Transfer Ratio (LTR), and a low-level, whole-body RL policy dep
Source - Long-Distance Real-World Navigation of the Legged-Wheeled Robot Go2-W Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
2026-06-19 - Research Publication - The paper builds a deep-reinforcement-learning locomotion controller and autonomous navigation system for the commercially available Go2-W.
Source - MUJICA: Multi-skill Unified Joint Integration of Control Architecture for Wheeled-Legged Robots
2026-05-13 - Research Publication - Wheeled-legged robots hold promise for traversing complex terrains and offer superior mobility compared to legged robots.
Source - fan-ziqi/robot_lab
2024-07-06 - Research Publication - The source registers exact model-specific Isaac Lab environments for tracked quadruped, wheeled-quadruped and humanoid platforms.
Source
Context
Market context
Compact wheeled-legged Go2 variant with in-wheel motors and pneumatic tires.
- Target environment: Education, research, inspection demos, light field robotics and all-terrain mobility experiments.
- Workflow context: Wheel-leg traversal, stairs, obstacle crossing, app control, secondary development and sensor-enabled mobility.
- Customer context: Developers, researchers, education users and teams testing lower-cost quadruped mobility.
- Deployment model: Commercial product in Unitree's Go-series ecosystem.
- Commercial maturity: public product page with detailed parameters and feature list.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on software access, safety controls, payload needs, terrain demands and support availability.
- Market position: Lower-cost wheeled quadruped option beneath Unitree's industrial B-series.
- Adjacent products: Unitree Go2, Unitree B2-W, Unitree B2, Deep Robotics Lite3
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