US robot brands fear fail videos amid FCC ban
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-08-19
A retweeted observation notes that while researchers want American-made humanoids, US brand teams at companies like Figure and Tesla are terrified. Previous fail videos mostly featured Unitree; having US robots fail visibly would hurt their branding. Includes a link to an article on how the FCC ban on Chinese robots affects the US ecosystem.
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