America bans imported robots due to supply chain and security risks
Docs point to China’s Unitree as prime example of the foreign clanker threat
The US government has decided to effectively ban the sale of advanced robots made in other nations.
The decision trickled out over two days with publication of a National Security Determination [PDF] and an update [PDF] to the list of banned devices set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
The national security document observes “Advanced robotic devices will be critical to creating efficiencies in our economy, dominating on the battlefield, and securing our homeland” and notes that modern bots are now constantly connected to networks “which creates broad attack surfaces and leaves them vulnerable to data exfiltration, remote disruption of the physical robot, and dependencies on unsecure over the air updates.”
One example of those vulnerabilities mentioned in the document is the UniPwn flaws that made it possible for attackers to take overhumanoid robots made by...
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