{"id":5263,"date":"2026-07-28T22:37:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/the-us-is-banning-foreign-robots\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T22:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:37:53","slug":"the-us-is-banning-foreign-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/the-us-is-banning-foreign-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"The US is banning foreign robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A humanoid robot from Unitree\" data-caption=\"The Chinese robot maker, Unitree, will likely be impacted by the ban. | Bloomberg via Getty Images\" data-portal-copyright=\"Bloomberg via Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/gettyimages-2281892623.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\"><figcaption>\n\tThe Chinese robot maker, Unitree, will likely be impacted by the ban. | Bloomberg via Getty Images\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US government is targeting China with a new import ban on &#8220;advanced robotic devices&#8221; and power inverters made in foreign countries, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trump-administration-ban-new-chinese-robots-inverters-protecting-us-ai-buildout-2026-07-28\/\">reported earlier by <em>Reuters<\/em><\/a>. In <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.fcc.gov\/public\/attachments\/DOC-423682A1.pdf\">an announcement on Tuesday<\/a>, the Federal Communications Commission says the ban will include &#8220;mobile&#8221; robots, such as humanoid and quadruped models &#8211; but it is not limited to robots that walk around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though the FCC says the move isn&#8217;t targeted at a specific country, it will have a major impact on China as the country ramps up <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-humanoid-robots-ai-demand-7d542b5ee92caa9d79efa28de89afbbe\">efforts to produce humanoid robots<\/a>, some of which we&#8217;ve seen in viral videos <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/robots-and-machines\/robot-michael-jackson-wiping-out-illustrates-industry-problem\">stumbling to Michael Jackson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/pro\/usd50-000-t800-robot-decapitates-fellow-android-in-worlds-first-robotics-mma-fight\">partaking in MMA<\/a> fights, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3355993\/brilliant-us-public-cheers-dancing-unitree-robots-while-congress-looks-ban-them\">even appearing \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/972259\/us-foreign-robots-power-inverter-ban\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese robot maker, Unitree, will likely be impacted by the ban. | Bloomberg via Getty Images The US government is targeting China with a new import ban on &#8220;advanced robotic devices&#8221; and power inverters made in foreign countries, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission says the &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gundem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}