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The FCC has banned the sale and import of foreign-made robotic devices and power inverters.
The ban includes vacuums and lawn mowers from the world's largest robot manufacturers.
Robots previously imported into the US are unaffected.
Did the FCC just tell US consumers, No more Roombas for you?
The Federal Communications Commission has banned the sale and import of foreign-produced robotic devices and power inverters as part of the Trump administration's AI Action Plan. The FCC claims that advanced robotic devices, such as robot vacuums and robot lawn mowers, pose a cybersecurity risk to US consumers.
As with the FCC's sweeping ban on foreign-made routers this May, the agency argues that humanoid and consumer robots, including robot vacuums, robot mowers, and delivery robots, could be used for surveillance and other harmful activities.
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