--- date: 2026-07-29 subject: "FCC bars new Chinese robots and inverters | Beijing vows measures | Momenta omits training data" --- **FCC added advanced robots and networked power inverters to its Covered List** on July 28, barring new foreign-made models, including humanoid and four-legged robots, from the equipment authorization required to import or sell in the United States, while leaving already authorized models untouched. **China's Foreign Ministry pledged further measures** on July 29, with spokesperson Mao Ning saying Beijing firmly opposes what she described as an overstretched national security rationale and will act to protect Chinese firms' lawful rights. **Moonshot omitted its training data sources from the Kimi K3 technical report** published July 27, days after White House science and technology policy director Michael Kratsios said U.S. information indicates the company distilled Anthropic's Fable model. # Top Stories - **FCC blocks new foreign-made robots and power inverters from the U.S. market** — The Federal Communications Commission added foreign-made advanced robots and networked power inverters to its Covered List on July 28. The FCC must authorize communications equipment before it can be imported or sold in the United States. Gear on the Covered List cannot obtain that authorization. The robots covered are mobile machines such as humanoid and four-legged models, and the rule reaches new versions only, leaving models already sold or authorized untouched. China supplies about 85% of the world's humanoid robots. TUnitree and AgiBot each shipped more than 5,000 of the roughly 15,000 units sold worldwide in 2025, per AP News. The move also covers power inverters that are used to direct current from sources such as solar panels and batteries into the alternating current a grid uses. [Caixin](https://www.caixin.com/2026-07-29/102469156.html) [Wallstreetcn](https://wallstreetcn.com/livenews/3141467) [AP News](https://apnews.com/article/c9f5e3c94d91d00eff3b61b141fab366) - **Foreign Ministry says China will keep taking measures over the U.S. robot import ban** — Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on July 29 that China firmly opposes the United States overstretching the concept of national security to suppress Chinese companies. She said protectionism will not improve U.S. competitiveness and that China will continue taking necessary measures to safeguard the lawful rights and interests of Chinese enterprises. The Pentagon recently added Unitree and several other Chinese technology companies to a list of firms it says have ties to the Chinese military. Beijing rejects that claim. Samm Sacks, a senior fellow at the New America think tank, called the FCC action "a steady drumbeat of potential flashpoints heading into (the) Trump-Xi summit planned for September." [Wallstreetcn](https://wallstreetcn.com/livenews/3141530) [AP News](https://apnews.com/article/c9f5e3c94d91d00eff3b61b141fab366) - **Moonshot's Kimi K3 report withholds the training data at the center of a U.S. distillation accusation** — Following the Kimi K3 weight release CTD covered on [July 28th](https://chinatechdaily.org/archive/china-daily/2026-07-28/), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy director Michael Kratsios said U.S. information indicates Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable model. Distillation trains a new model on another model's outputs, which can transfer capability without repeating the original training run. The technical report Moonshot published July 27 lists only the company's own reinforcement learning policies as teachers. It does not disclose the pretraining corpus, the fine-tuning data or the synthetic task sources. China's Ministry of Commerce said the U.S. claims lack factual evidence and legal basis, and that U.S. companies also study distillation using Chinese open models. [TMTPost](https://www.tmtpost.com/8083426.html) - **Germany clears Chinese developer Momenta to test driverless cars nationwide** — Following the Shenzhen robotaxi road testing permit CTD covered on [July 22nd](https://chinatechdaily.org/archive/china-daily/2026-07-22/), Momenta said on July 29 that Germany's Federal Motor Transport Authority granted it a permit for Level 4 testing on urban roads nationwide. Momenta is a Chinese autonomous driving software developer. Level 4 means the vehicle drives itself within a defined area with no human backup. The permit removes the need to apply city by city, and its safety verification standards tie directly to the European Union regulatory framework. ITHome reports it is the first Germany-wide urban Level 4 authorization held by a Chinese company. Momenta already works with Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Volkswagen Group. [ITHome](https://www.ithome.com/0/983/103.htm) # Policy & Regulation - **Zhejiang sets numeric 2027 and 2030 targets for factory AI adoption** — Zhejiang province has issued an implementation plan for AI enabled digital transformation of manufacturing covering 2026 through 2030. By 2027 it aims to cultivate 10 "AI+Future Factory" demonstration enterprises, 20 industrial agent platforms and 50 high-quality datasets for key industries. An industrial agent is software that plans and carries out a production or engineering task with limited human input. The 2030 targets raise that to 30 demonstration enterprises, 50 agent platforms and 100 datasets, plus 150 application scenarios and 300 industrial agents provincewide. [Yicai](https://www.yicai.com/brief/103297221.html) [state-affiliated] - **State Post Bureau puts drone mail delivery in its five-year plan** — The State Post Bureau, China's mail and parcel regulator, said on July 29 that AI will be a major focus of the 15th Five-Year Plan for the postal industry, per CCTV News. The plan calls for expanding drone mail transport to mountain areas, islands and plateaus, including takeoff and landing platforms at delivery outlets and village service stations. It also requires mining industry data on consumer demand changes, logistics flow conditions and economic development status to serve government decision-making. Bureau spokesperson Hu Kai said it will strengthen construction of research and development centers focused on AI during the plan period. [Yicai](https://www.yicai.com/brief/103297038.html) [state-affiliated] - **Huawei, Tencent and DeepSeek refuse site visits by a U.S. congressional commission** — A delegation from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission asked to conduct on-site inspections at leading Chinese technology firms including Huawei, Tencent and DeepSeek, and all declined, per Kuaikeji. The commission is a congressional body that reviews the national security implications of U.S.-China economic ties. The bipartisan delegation visited Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai in late July. It said the core purpose of the trip was to understand the real state of China's AI and advanced technology industries. Leiphone, which characterizes the commission as a longtime advocate of U.S. technology restrictions on China, reports that delegation members expressed shock at the collective refusal. [Leiphone](https://www.leiphone.com/category/zaobao/fwbpqVq7a1nKGyPz.html) # AI & Foundation Models - **Security vendor Sangfor says its AI agent cleared 86% of a bug-hunting benchmark** — Sangfor, a Chinese enterprise security vendor, said on July 29 that its AI security agent completed 1,301 of 1,507 tasks on the CyberGym benchmark, a success rate of 86.3%. CyberGym measures whether an AI system can find real software flaws, drawing its tasks from archives of past high-severity vulnerabilities in open source code. The agent ran on GLM-5.2, a domestic large language model. It scored 87.2% on tasks from the ARVO vulnerability collection and 77.7% on those from OSS-Fuzz, a project that automatically tests open source code for crashes. Sangfor says the result places it among the top four globally and first among the Chinese teams that entered, above OpenAI and Anthropic. [QbitAI](https://www.qbitai.com/2026/07/462447.html) # Chips & Semiconductors - **Chipone starts volume production of a domestic touch and display driver chip for OLED phones** — Chipone, a Chinese display driver chip designer, said on its WeChat account that its ICNA3611 has reached large-scale mass production in mainstream handsets from a well-known domestic brand. The company says the part is China's first domestically developed touch and display driver integration chip for OLED screens. Such a chip combines the circuitry that drives a screen's pixels with the circuitry that reads finger touches, replacing two separate components. [Wallstreetcn](https://wallstreetcn.com/livenews/3141578) - **Prices for the capacitors AI servers need have risen three to five times** — Merchants at Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei and Shanghai's SEG electronics markets say prices for multilayer ceramic capacitors have risen three to five times since January, with quotes changing daily, per Huxiu. A multilayer ceramic capacitor is a small passive component that steadies the power supply to a circuit, and AI hardware needs them in bulk. A single Nvidia GB200 board requires about 6,500 of them, and the next generation Rubin board may need about 12,000 because of higher power draw. Japanese manufacturers held about 70% of the high-capacitance segment used in AI servers in 2025. China imported multilayer ceramic capacitors worth as much as $6.2 billion that year. [Huxiu](https://www.huxiu.com/article/4879035.html) # Robotics & Autonomous Systems - **Baidu's robotaxi unit begins London road testing alongside Waymo** — Baidu's Apollo Go said on July 28 that it has begun public road testing in London with Uber and Freenow, the European mobility platform owned by Lyft. The move follows its Hong Kong driverless clearance covered in CTD's [July 23rd edition](https://chinatechdaily.org/archive/china-daily/2026-07-23/). Apollo Go is Baidu's robotaxi service, and the first phase of the London work covers mixed urban and suburban conditions in the borough of Brent. London's city government in March 2026 named Wayve, Baidu and Waymo as the robotaxi firms in preliminary talks with local transport authorities. Waymo has already begun testing in London with professional safety personnel aboard, and Apollo Go expects to offer public driverless service there from 2027. [QbitAI](https://www.qbitai.com/2026/07/462071.html) # Digital Infrastructure - **Huawei says its HarmonyOS laptop cleared a security certification at chip, system and device level** — Huawei said on July 29 that its HarmonyOS PC passed Common Criteria evaluation assurance level 5+ across the whole device, the operating system and the chip. Common Criteria is an international standard for evaluating the security of information technology products, with assurance levels from 1 to 7 that require progressively more rigorous design review. Guo Changsheng, who heads HarmonyOS security at Huawei's device unit, said at a product briefing that it is China's first PC certified at that level across all three layers. The China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center separately rated the HarmonyOS desktop system at Level II in January 2026. No other desktop or server operating system holds that rating, per ITHome. [ITHome](https://www.ithome.com/0/983/125.htm)