The Chinese robot maker, Unitree, will likely be impacted by the ban.
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, some of which we’ve seen in viral videos stumbling to Michael Jackson, partaking in MMA fights, and even appearing …
Read the full story at The Verge. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission says the ban will include “mobile” robots, such as humanoid and quadruped models – but it is not limited to robots that walk around. | Bloomberg via Getty Images
The US government is targeting China with a new import ban on “advanced robotic devices” and power inverters made in foreign countries, as analysised earlier by Reuters. .