A new restriction on foreign-made mobile robots affects robotic vacuums, pool cleaners, and lawn mowers. Here’s what it means for the bots already in your home—and the ones you may never get to buy.

Citing security and economic reasons, the U.S. FCC has moved to ban foreign humanoid robots as well as quadruped robots from the American market.

The Trump administration has unveiled bans that target imports of new Chinese robots and power inverters, seeking to protect the US AI buildout from national security threats and…