U S Ban on Groin Punching Robots HD 1080p
The FCC added advanced robotic devices to its Covered List on July 28, 2026 — which means new foreign-made humanoid, quadruped, wheeled, and tracked machines over 4.4 pounds with network connectivity can’t get the equipment authorization required to be imported, advertised, or sold in the United States.
Existing models are grandfathered. Your Roomba is fine. Your camera drone is fine. This is a wall in front of the next generation, not the current one.
The same order also covered connected power inverters — the boxes that turn solar panels into household current — where investigators actually found undocumented cellular radios in equipment already wired into the grid.
This is the fourth escalation on the same list. Huawei and ZTE routers and Hikvision cameras in 2022. All foreign-produced drones in December 2025. Huawei chips earlier this month. Robots yesterday.
And the agency doing it is the Federal Communications Commission — because these machines transmit on U.S. radio frequencies. That’s the jurisdictional hook.
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FCC — Covered List addition, 28 July 2026 (advanced robotic devices, connected power inverters) FCC — Covered List, UAS addition, December 2025 FCC — Equipment authorization ban, November 2022 (Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision, Dahua) FY2025 NDAA, Section 1709 — audit requirement, 23 December 2025 deadline Reuters, May 2025 — undocumented cellular radios in Chinese-made solar inverters Washington Post, 28 July 2026 — scope of the designation Forbes, 28 July 2026 — humanoid shipment shares FCC — U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, established March 2024
