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U.S. blocks foreign humanoid robots, with China in view
Jul 29, 2026SOURCE: apnews.com
SO WHAT
The window is tightening: the next contest is not who builds robots, but who controls the minds inside them.
The FCC is moving to bar foreign-made humanoid robots on national-security grounds. The wire shows the old system treating embodied AI as strategic terrain, not consumer hardware.
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