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FCC Bans Chinese Humanoid Robots and Power Inverters Linked to Confirmed Backdoors
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Fusion42 · 28 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
The FCC has banned new Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots (Unitree models) and connected power inverters from US markets, invoking the same regulatory authority used against Huawei and DJI. The ban follows documented backdoors including CVE-2025-2894 (undocumented cloud tunnel with remote control) and UniPwn (wormable Bluetooth exploit granting root access) confirmed in robots already deployed at MIT, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, and University of Waterloo.
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You can no longer import Unitree robots into the US under the same rule that killed Huawei and DJI — the FCC just moved robotics into active supply-chain enforcement. If you're selling hardware that connects to the network in the US market, embedded firmware backdoors are now a regulatory liability that can lock you out overnight.
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