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Trump Administration Bans New Chinese Humanoid Robots (bbc.com)

(Wednesday July 29, 2026 @05:00AM (BeauHD) from the bot-ban dept.)


The Trump administration has [1]banned newly authorized foreign-made humanoid and four-legged robots , along with power inverters, citing "unacceptable risks" to the country's national security. FCC chairman Brendan Carr said the agency was doing its part "to secure America's critical supply chains." The BBC reports:

> The FCC has added the items to its [2]Covered List -- a register of goods and services that are deemed a risk to US national security. The ban applies to new foreign-produced advanced robotic devices and power inverters and does not prevent the sale or import of any existing models that had been previously authorized by the FCC.

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> The FCC cited concerns that the use of foreign-made inverters could allow overseas firms to turn them off, steal data, facilitate remote access and surveillance by "foreign government actors, or be otherwise exploited through a cyberattack." It added that the use of robots made outside the US could allow "malign actors to surveil Americans, enhance the capabilities of foreign intelligence services, or to remotely commandeer the robots."



[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9e2ex3ekyo

[2] https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist



Enron Husk desperate to stop the stock freefall (Score:5, Funny)

by T34L ( 10503334 )

Also, it's a real shame it's impossible to design a power inverter without any complex logic or arbitrary data links. I imagine they can't flip those electrons back and forth without maintaining a lively chat with the mothership.

Good.. (Score:2)

by SuperDre ( 982372 )

US made humanoid robots are so much easier to take over by any foreign state or hacker, thank god for keeping secure robots out of your country...

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by gtall ( 79522 )

That's not how he's protecting Americans. He is sucking up all the graft he can to protect his fellow Americans from it.

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by gtall ( 79522 )

See Nazi Germany and see how well your philosophy worked out for them. Too ancient, try N. Korea.

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by SlashDotCanSuckMy777 ( 6182618 )

BEEP BOOP, MR ROBOTO.

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by butt0nm4n ( 1736412 )

Are you real ? You sound fucking demented.

Try this in your pipe.

Americans are not free. Most are shackled to debt in hope of buying happiness, working jobs they don't want to. They work longer hours, have less holidays and earn less than many countries in the western world. Many Americans are poorly educated, obese and unwell, they suffer a variety of addictions drugs, alcohol, food, social media. They have no public healthcare provision, disregard for the environment and their lifespan is reducing. Half of

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by procrastinatos ( 1004262 )

> [...] that desecration of Homer in the cinemas, with Trans and gays [...]

Totally. Absolutely no homosexuality in Greek antiquity. Had to be added in by woke Hollywood. History has been rewritten.

For sure, when your "just-a-friend dies", you will also refuse to eat, bathe, and request your bones to be mixed in the same urn as his.

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Fascism is not LEFT wing, and never was. (You're delusional.)

Please let in one last batch ... (Score:4, Informative)

by Alain Williams ( 2972 )

to replace Trump and his cronies. It would be very hard for them to do a worse job.

Good luck (Score:2)

by cripkd ( 709136 )

After outsourcing a lot of mass production to China for decades, good luck being able to mass produce anything without China. We close the markets for them, admitting there is a big market (why, I don't fully understand. It still seems to me specialized robots are better suited, but probably it easier to produce "one" robot for all tasks and adapt in software), but we won't be able to fill the demand gap any time soon.

Chinese robots (Score:2)

by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 )

Do they have a robot that resembles an elderly, overweight man with a comb-over and who keeps nodding off in important meetings and at events?

Technicality, n.:
In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having
accused a neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt
hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one
side of his head fell on one shoulder and the other side upon the
other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the
court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder,
for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an
inference.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"