Congress Wants To Put Down China’s Robot Dogs
Congress introduced a bill to clamp down on Unitree’s humanoid dominance
Congress would like you to know that the China-made humanoid robots wandering the streets and warehouses of America might be spying on us.
The Guarding the U.S. Against Adversarial Robotics Dominance (GUARD) Act was introduced last week by Rep. John Moolenaar, who chairs the House Select Committee on China, alongside Reps. Jay Obernolte of California and Jennifer McClellan of Virginia. In a press release published Wednesday, they warn that China-made humanoids and quadrupeds contain backdoors the People’s Liberation Army can fling open at will — a threat one endorser compares to the plot of the 1984 film Red Dawn. Here’s Molenaar’s take:
