White House Bans Foreign Humanoid Robots in Bid to Slow China’s Tech Explosion
Federal Communications Commission announced a new ban on advanced, foreign-made robots Tuesday. Many of these same concerns were raised as the reason to ban TikTok before it was forced to sell a majority stake in the company to U.S. interests. President Donald Trump, who previously supported the TikTok ban, changed his opinion as soon as wealthy U.S. and Middle East interests expressed a desire to buy the platform.
- ▪Federal Communications Commission announced a new ban on advanced, foreign-made robots Tuesday.
- ▪Many of these same concerns were raised as the reason to ban TikTok before it was forced to sell a majority stake in the company to U.S. interests.
- ▪President Donald Trump, who previously supported the TikTok ban, changed his opinion as soon as wealthy U.S. and Middle East interests expressed a desire to buy the platform.
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced a new ban on advanced, foreign-made robots Tuesday. The ban is largely seen as a way to target humanoid robots made by China, a traditional geopolitical adversary of the U.S. that has been making enormous strides in robotics and AI in recent years.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000792090","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"robots","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"robots,tech","TAGS":"humanoid-robots,robots,unitree","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); The FCC said in a press release that the robots, including mobile two-legged…
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