FCC Bans New Chinese-Made Humanoid Robots and Robot Dogs, Citing National Security Risks
The FCC added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots to its Covered List, blocking new imports as China holds roughly 85% of the global market.
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The FCC added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots to its Covered List, blocking new imports as China holds roughly 85% of the global market.
EngineAI's Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend opened in Shenzhen with 32 teams fighting on standardized T800 humanoids for a gold championship belt worth 10 million yuan. One robot lost its head mid-match and finished the fight on torso-based systems.
Hyundai Motor's union struck for three days in Ulsan over pay and demanded a labor agreement before Boston Dynamics' Atlas robots enter its plants.
MIT spinout Walden Robotics raised $300 million led by Toyota and Deviation Capital, and has run wheeled humanoid robots at a Toyota plant since February.
Engineers and surgeons at UC San Diego used two teleoperated humanoid robots, nicknamed Surgie, to complete two gallbladder-removal procedures, reporting the results in Nature.
AGIBOT unveiled its A3 humanoid in Europe and launched UK robot rental pricing starting at £1,999 a day, days after marking its 15,000th robot produced.
UMA, the Paris startup led by former Tesla Optimus and Hugging Face engineer Rémi Cadène, has emerged from stealth to unveil Northstar, a lightweight humanoid robot aimed at European factories and warehouses.
Agility Robotics will list on Nasdaq as AGLT through a SPAC merger valuing it at $2.5 billion, with more than $620 million in proceeds and a Foxconn-led PIPE.
Two months after a RMB 1 billion round, ROBOTERA raised over $200 million to scale humanoid deployments across 10-plus logistics centers.
A joint directive from China's industry ministry and state-asset regulator pushes humanoid robots from demos into paying jobs, targeting 10,000 commercial units and 100-plus applications by year-end.
Two Vingroup subsidiaries debuted humanoid robots at ICRA 2026 and Computex Taipei, marking Vietnam's entry into a field led by US and Chinese firms.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market listing committee cleared the humanoid robot maker's IPO on Monday, a key hurdle toward a 4.2-billion-yuan raise.