The FCC has added Chinese‑made advanced robots to its ‘Covered’ List, warning that they could enable surveillance, cyber‑attacks, supply‑chain disruption and remote compromise, and is moving to block their entry into U.S. factories and ports.
A Eurasia Review report frames the emerging robot rivalry as a contest over control of machines, supply chains and AI standards that affect battlefield stakes, noting that in 2024 China produced roughly 300,000 industrial robots while the United States installed about 34,000, with America leading in models, chips and cloud services and China dominating plant construction and deployments.
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Citing reported vulnerabilities in Chinese robotic platforms, the article says the U.S. strategy is two‑pronged: deny Chinese platforms space to dominate American robotic and AI infrastructure and simultaneously build a competitive, allied‑backed embodied AI ecosystem.
