The US government just banned Roombas

When the Trump medication announced yesterday that it was banning "advanced robotic devices" from entering the United States, the headlines were each astir humanoids. But spying doesn't necessitate legs - and neither does the FCC's robot ban.

The robot prohibition volition expanse up robot vacuum cleaners too, FCC media relations manager Katie Gorscak confirms to The Verge.

It's not coming for your existing Roomba, and companies tin support importing and selling already approved ones. But the authorities claims that aboriginal overseas robots airs a nationalist information risk, and adjacent robovac companies are abruptly being asked to perpetrate to US manufacturing.

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