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Posted on 07/28/2026 7:16:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Trump administration on Tuesday announced a ban on new foreign-made humanoid robot imports to the US over "unacceptable risks" to the country's national security.
The move applies to advanced robots - including humanoid and four-legged machines. Many of them are made in China, which is locked in a race with the US to develop robotics and artificial intelligence (AI).
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) also banned the import of power inverters - a device used in data centres and solar panels - which it said could also pose a risk to the US economy.
FCC chairman Brendan Carr said the agency was doing its part "to secure America's critical supply chains".
The BBC has contacted the Chinese embassy in Washington as well as major Chinese robot manufacturers Unitree, UBTech and AgiBot.
The FCC has added the items to its 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 authorised by the FCC.
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."
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When robots become proprietary you will have counterfeit robots.
Imagine roving bands of thieving robots, or robot vandalism.
The more sophisticated the robot or electronics then the more likely to be bought by the wealthy, and the greater the odds of being owned and used by people high in government and business and other areas who are worth spying on.
If you can train a dog to steal bikini tops at the beach, just imagine what you can use a robot for.
Does this mean Chinese Sex Robots are not coming in?
Asking for a friend.
And uh, help my wife out around the house. Morgan Fairchild; whom I've seen naked. (Yeah, that's the ticket.)
Do you mean the classic old Ad about Coppertone Tan Lotion?
That immediately comes to mind. One of those ‘lighthearted’ Ads that would never be approved of today.
Exactly the movie I was thinking about!
I meant when girls lay chest down and undo their top to avoid tan lines, the dog can steal that, or of course a guy can use the old trick of dumping ice water on her, which of course makes her jump up in a scream.
That mention of the Coppertone ad is a sad thing to think about, we are so degraded and decadent now that the Coppertone ad would be see by the left as sexual today.
The Coppertone ad got cancelled due to being considered Child Porn.
Exactly, the more twisted the left becomes the more they see sub text in everything, words, photos, ads, old books, old movies, old songs, old statues, old symbols, even things like building designs and the Interstate Highway system.
Need a ban on all chink humanoids.🙄
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