The US is banning foreign robots

The Chinese robot maker, Unitree, volition apt beryllium impacted by the ban. | Bloomberg via Getty Images

The US authorities is targeting China with a caller import prohibition connected "advanced robotic devices" and powerfulness inverters made successful overseas countries, arsenic reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement connected Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission says the prohibition volition see "mobile" robots, specified arsenic humanoid and quadruped models - but it is not constricted to robots that locomotion around.

Though the FCC says the determination isn't targeted astatine a circumstantial country, it volition person a large interaction connected China arsenic the state ramps up efforts to nutrient humanoid robots, immoderate of which we've seen successful viral videos stumbling to Michael Jackson, partaking successful MMA fights, and even appearing …

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