{"id":3292,"date":"2026-07-29T02:37:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/the-us-is-banning-foreign-robots\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T02:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:37:53","slug":"the-us-is-banning-foreign-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/the-us-is-banning-foreign-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"The US is banning foreign robots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tThe Chinese robot maker, Unitree, will likely be impacted by the ban. | Bloomberg via Getty Images\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n

The US government is targeting China with a new import ban on \u00ab\u00a0advanced robotic devices\u00a0\u00bb and power inverters made in foreign countries, as reported earlier by Reuters<\/em><\/a>. In an announcement on Tuesday<\/a>, the Federal Communications Commission says the ban will include \u00ab\u00a0mobile\u00a0\u00bb robots, such as humanoid and quadruped models – but it is not limited to robots that walk around.<\/p>\n

Though the FCC says the move isn’t targeted at a specific country, it will have a major impact on China as the country ramps up efforts to produce humanoid robots<\/a>, some of which we’ve seen in viral videos stumbling to Michael Jackson<\/a>, partaking in MMA<\/a> fights, and even appearing \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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