Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots?

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美国丢出重磅炸弹，全面封杀外国机器人！这次连你家的扫地机器人都可能中招。美国联邦通信委员会（FCC）以“国家安全”为由，将外国制造的机器人列为“风险技术”，禁止在美国使用。禁令范围极广，不仅包括中国造的人形机器人和四足机器人，连最新款的智能扫地机也未能幸免。不过FCC自己并不能随意决定这份清单，得听从白宫旗下跨部门国家安全机构的指令。简单来说，美国这次打击面太大，消费者和企业都懵了：用着好好的进口扫地机、送货机器人，突然可能变成“违禁品”。后果更是立竿见影：普通家庭买高端扫地机选择骤减，价格可能上涨；依赖进口机器人的工厂和仓库面临断供风险，生产节奏被打乱。而中国机器人厂商自然首当其冲，被迫转向其他市场。这场禁令没有赢家，只有输家——最终买单的还是普通用户和中小企业。

Humanoid robots and four-legged robots made in China fall squarely under a new ban imposed by the US Federal Communications Commission on foreign-made robots. But the sweeping prohibition covers a wide variety of robots manufactured anywhere abroad, including the newest robot vacuum cleaners. The Trump administration's FCC justified the ban on foreign-made robots by referencing cybersecurity vulnerabilities previously discovered in robots specifically made by Chinese companies. On July 28, the federal agency added “foreign-produced advanced robotic devices” to its Covered List of technologies “deemed to pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the US or the safety and security of US persons.” However, the FCC cannot update the Covered List on its own initiative and is required by law to follow the direction of a “qualifying national security authority.” The agency describes the White House as having “convened an executive branch interagency body” that “included appropriate national security agencies,” which determined foreign-made robots as presenting a national security risk.Read full article Comments