Unitree
Go2
Can the Unitree Go2 be imported and sold in the United States?
Lawful to import and sell
Authorized before the 28 July 2026 cutoff. The FCC has said the Covered List update does not prohibit the import, sale or use of models it previously authorized, so newly built units of this model stay lawful to import, sell and use. What cannot happen is a new authorization for it. FCC ID 2A5PE-YUSHU004, granted 27 May 2024.
The record
- Board verdict
- Grandfathered
- Origin
- China
- Class
- Quadruped
- Availability and tier
- Yes, direct. Mid tier.
- FCC ID
- 2A5PE-YUSHU004
- Grant date
- 27 May 2024
We loaded the grant record ourselves from the official FCC equipment authorization database.
Widely sold consumer quadruped. Grant record on file well before the cutoff.
Who can buy it, and with what money
Two different gates. Whether a platform may be sold at all is set by FCC authorization and binds everyone. Whether a particular buyer may spend a particular kind of money on it is set by procurement law and binds public money only. The same machine can pass one and fail the other.
Authorized before the 28 July 2026 cutoff. The FCC has said the Covered List update does not prohibit the import, sale or use of models it previously authorized, so newly built units of this model stay lawful to import, sell and use. What cannot happen is a new authorization for it. FCC ID 2A5PE-YUSHU004, granted 27 May 2024.
Authorized before the 28 July 2026 cutoff. The FCC has said the Covered List update does not prohibit the import, sale or use of models it previously authorized, so newly built units of this model stay lawful to import, sell and use. What cannot happen is a new authorization for it. FCC ID 2A5PE-YUSHU004, granted 27 May 2024.
Foreign produced. Public agencies and districts should assume their procurement rules restrict this. Several makers including Unitree are reported to sit on the Department of War 1260H list of Chinese military companies. We have not loaded that list ourselves and we cite no record for it here, so treat it as something to check with your counsel rather than as a finding of ours. Institutions that take federal money commonly apply it as an internal bar whether or not a statute reaches them directly. Confirm your own institution's rule. Private and commercial buyers are unaffected.
Foreign produced. Public agencies and districts should assume their procurement rules restrict this. Several makers including Unitree are reported to sit on the Department of War 1260H list of Chinese military companies. We have not loaded that list ourselves and we cite no record for it here, so treat it as something to check with your counsel rather than as a finding of ours. Institutions that take federal money commonly apply it as an internal bar whether or not a statute reaches them directly. Confirm your own institution's rule. Private and commercial buyers are unaffected.
On 28 July 2026 the FCC added a class of foreign-produced advanced robotic devices to its Covered List. The definition is conjunctive and reaches a device only when all five elements are true at once: foreign produced, over 4.4 lb including any dock or charging base, carrying environmental sensors, networked at 200 kbps or more, and running autonomous navigation or remote-control software. A covered device cannot receive a new equipment authorization, and without one it cannot lawfully be imported or marketed in the United States. Devices authorized before that date keep their authorization, and newly built units of those models may still be imported and sold. That single date is what separates the platforms on this site that can ship from the ones that cannot.
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