The toy pet is a gift his mom just bought him at a robot “carnival” held by an R&D center on the outskirts of Shanghai, and he can’t stop showing it off to passersby. It’s a public holiday, and curious families are pouring in to the event to see what’s on display.

Exhibitors watch a robot play table tennis at a booth of Unitree, one of China's largest humanoid robot makers, during the World Robot Conference at the Beijing Yichuang International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026. Credit: AP/Andy Wong

Unitree – whose dexterous robots have raised national security concerns in Congress – raised 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) in its public debut. The Hangzhou-based firm is the first robotics firm

The ban largely affects U.S. imports from China, which currently dominates the global market for making humanoid robots and solar inverters.

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That's according to Fox News, which reported that Department of Homeland Security officials have sat through at least one presentation from the humanoid robotics company Foundation.

It’s been called the Robot Olympics. But unlike the human Olympics, Team China is collecting almost all the medals.

China’s Unitree Robotics – among the world's biggest producers of humanoid and quadruped robots – based designs for its most successful robot dogs on innovations funded by the U.S. military, according to three top robotics researchers and a former U.

The ban applies to new versions of humanoid robots, four-legged robot dogs and power inverters used in renewable energy systems, data centers and household appliances.