{
  "id": 18237,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3363437/us-does-its-robotics-industry-no-favours-fencing-it-china",
  "title": "US does its robotics industry no favours by fencing it off from China",
  "summary": "Concession speeches follow a formula: the vocabulary of defiance, thanks to the faithful, a promise that the fight goes on. Last month, Brendan Carr, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), essentially delivered one on behalf of American robotics. Acting on findings from a White House task force, Carr added new foreign-made humanoid robots, quadrupeds and power inverters to the agency’s Covered List, denying them the authorisation nearly every electronic device requires to be",
  "authors": "Thomas O. Falk",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us,china",
  "published_at": "2026-08-10T12:30:06.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-11T05:10:37.351Z",
  "source_slug": "x-scmp-tech-hk-cn",
  "source_name": "SCMP Tech (HK/CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.scmp.com/tech",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18237",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3363437/us-does-its-robotics-industry-no-favours-fencing-it-china",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}