The Federal Communications Commission has added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots to its Covered List, barring new models from authorisation on national-security grounds. Those already here are unaffected.
Tens of thousands of Hyundai workers stopped work over the deployment of humanoid units — the first such stoppage the car industry has seen. The machine at the centre of it has not been assigned a single task at any Korean plant.
Tesla’s trade-secret case against Proception, founded by a former Optimus engineer, was dismissed with prejudice in June following a settlement. The startup closed $11m. The month’s other hand story was a new fifteen-joint design. The pattern is not a coincidence.