After FCC Bans Chinese Humanoids, Steel Bot Unveils Open-Source American Robot Manifesto

dunkhippo33 · x · 2026-08-29

• The FCC banned new foreign-made humanoid robots from the US market three days ago, cutting off affordable programmable platforms for researchers, hobbyists and startups.
• Steel Bot published its Manifesto: a fully open humanoid designed to be easy to program and modify, aiming to empower the American robotics ecosystem.
• The team says it has been building for months and now wants to get robots into researchers' and entrepreneurs' hands as fast as possible.

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