A new US bill could ban some Chinese robots from America.

The GUARD Act would force security agencies to review robots from China and other adversary countries, then place risky systems on the FCC’s Covered List, the same kind of restriction used against companies such as Huawei and ZTE.

The fear is not only that a robot has cameras, microphones, sensors, maps, motors, and wireless links, but that the whole machine becomes a moving computer inside factories, labs, homes, and police departments.

A separate Schumer-Cotton bill would stop federal agencies from buying or using Chinese humanoid robots, with exceptions for controlled military or law-enforcement research.