Every machine
we could find.
Who can actually ship.
Ground robots from a desk toy to a research humanoid, as far as the public record we searched goes, mapped against the FCC Covered List. FCC IDs and grant dates where that record holds them, and a plain verdict where it does not.
27 platforms, 18 makers,
one question each.
Sorted by what matters: verified grandfathered grants first, US production second, everything else after. Every row links its source.
Widely sold consumer quadruped. Grant record on file well before the cutoff.
Previous generation, still sold and still authorized.
Industrial-class quadruped with a verified pre-cutoff grant.
The reference consumer humanoid, verified grant sixteen months before the cutoff.
Multi-modal biped research platform. Verified grant, sold through US resellers.
Press coverage reports a grant date before the cutoff. Unverified by us. Confirm in the FCC EAS database before committing capital.
Reported grant four weeks before the cutoff. Verify before purchase.
Full-size humanoid, reported grant just inside the window. Verify before purchase.
Entered the US at CES 2026. Grant reported but the database page could not be loaded.
US-produced, so outside the Covered List entirely. In our view the most mature industrial option here.
Built at RoboFab in Oregon. The most open ordering route we found for a US-made industrial humanoid.
Assembled in Hayward, CA, which is an assembly fact and not an origin finding. The domestic end product test is a component cost test, over 65 percent domestic content, and that share is not published for this machine. 1X is headquartered in Norway with US operations. We found no other home humanoid with US assembly, and we still cannot call this one a domestic end product until the maker states the content share in writing.
US-made rugged quadruped sold through defense integrators.
US-produced with Jabil. No open sales channel.
US-made, not commercially sold.
US-produced at BotQ, deployed with commercial partners only.
Not sold to outside buyers.
Sold to US customers since 2022, apparently under declaration pathways with no public database record. New units need legal review before import.
The remote controller has a verified pre-cutoff grant. No robot-level grant was found. Do not treat the robots as grandfathered without one.
No grant record found, and absent from Unitree's own list of authorized models despite the live listing.
A grant for Go2 does not cover Go2-W. No separate grants found for the wheeled variants or Aliengo.
Prior US sales evidently relied on declaration, not certification. The Lite3 Pro manual carries no FCC ID. New imports have no grandfathered grant to point to.
UBTech holds many FCC grants for other product lines, none for the Walker series.
No grant record found. Live listings do not make an import lawful.
No grant record found.
Sold in China. No US grant record. Not lawfully marketable here.
European research platform. No US grant record, so new US imports are closed. EU sales unaffected.
How to read this. A verified grandfathered grant is the strongest thing a foreign platform can hold right now. A reported one deserves a check against the official FCC search before money moves. A live sales listing proves nothing. Several blocked platforms on this board are being sold in the US right now by people who either have not read the rule or hope you have not.
All products above belong to their makers. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an authorized distributor of any of them unless a separate agreement says so in writing. The per-platform records were assembled on the compiled date; the rule layer over them was last re-checked on the reviewed date. Regulatory status can change, including by revocation of existing grants. Confirm any FCC ID yourself in the official FCC equipment authorization search before you rely on it.
Under four and a half
pounds, the rule
never reaches you.
The covered-device test is conjunctive. Miss any one element and the device is outside it, and the element almost every small robot misses is weight. That is arithmetic rather than a carve-out, and it is why an entry tier robot dog imports on a footing a professional tier one does not.
- 01Foreign produced, measured by the Buy American domestic end product test rather than by country of brand
- 02Combined weight over 4.4 lb, including any dock or ground station
- 03Carries a sensor that perceives its environment
- 04Network connectivity at 200 kbps or more, counting Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular and satellite
- 05Software that controls autonomous navigation, perception, data collection, or remote command and control
A light robot on a heavy charging base can cross the line even when the robot alone does not. Nobody has published guidance on whether packaging or accessories count, so the combined figure is the one to ask a supplier for.
The authorization is what carries, not the crate. A model authorized before 28 July 2026 stays lawful to import and sell, including units built after that date. A unit of a model that never received an authorization is dead stock, and warehousing it before the cutoff does not make it a legacy sale.
It is a component cost test: made in the US with more than 65 percent domestic content, rising to 75 percent in 2029. Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese products are foreign produced too. Marketing copy is not evidence of origin. Ask for a certificate of origin and a bill of materials.
One of the best known desktop companions at this price. Ask for a certificate of origin rather than trusting a listing, because the public record on where it is made does not agree with itself.
Newer wearable pocket companion alongside EMO. Now on Amazon, which means the channel is already competitive on price.
Weight is published and verified at 2.42 lb, comfortably under. Our pick of the segment for expressiveness, and the one we would put on a counter to demonstrate.
260 grams. A listed Japanese multinational behind it, which makes the paperwork conversation easier than with a startup, though Casio publishes no self-serve dealer route.
The cleanest compliance story on this whole board. If it carries no radio at all it cannot meet the connectivity element, so the rule cannot reach it on any reading. Yukai also runs an explicit ODM practice, which is unusual and useful.
A forty dollar robot that blows on hot food. The impulse and gift SKU this catalog does not currently have.
Rolling home camera robot, already stocked by B and H and Walmart, so margin is set by an existing retail channel rather than by us.
The one Enabot model that may cross 4.4 lb. It has cameras, autonomous navigation and Wi-Fi, so weight is the only element still in question. Do not list it until a spec sheet says otherwise.
US company, so not foreign produced on its face, and far under weight regardless. Reported to be relaunching the line in 2026. The brand has changed hands more than once, and we hold no trade reference for the current entity, so run your own credit and complaint check before prepaying.
The one genuine problem in this category. It meets every element: foreign produced, 4.85 lb, environmental sensors, Wi-Fi, autonomous navigation. Its pre-cutoff authorization holds, so the model stays lawful to import and sell. Supply is finite because Sony halted Japan sales in mid 2026 and is winding the generation down, not because of anything the FCC did.
Children's AI companion, launched at CES 2026 and already stocked by Best Buy and Amazon. The strongest genuinely new entrant we found, but weight, radio and manufacture all need confirming.
Our first choice of supplier in the entry tier. US company, every configuration well under a pound, price ladder from 319 to 469 with an arm option, and free domestic shipping on mid-size orders. A US built product is not foreign produced, so the rule does not reach it on two separate grounds.
Palm sized quadruped kit. Hiwonder is a confirmed manufacturer with declared OEM and ODM capacity, which matters more than this single SKU does.
One of the two most important unverified weights on this board. It plausibly sits either side of 4.4 lb, it has vision and autonomy, and it is Chinese made, so weight alone decides whether it is covered. Get the spec sheet.
The other critical unknown. Twelve degrees of freedom, lidar mapping and navigation, so every element except weight is clearly met. Yahboom publishes a distributor channel with a named contact, so the spec sheet is one email away.
Self balancing two wheel legged rider. Two builds at two price points, which makes it a decent good and better pairing on a product page.
One of the cheapest credible ladders into robotics on this board. SunFounder publishes a named distributor address, which is rare this far down the tier.
Fifty dollar entry point. ELEGOO takes agent applications through a form only and publishes no direct address, so expect the conversation to start slowly.
Classroom staple sold in multi-packs, which is the right shape for a school purchase order. Makeblock publishes a bulk and education address and a reseller page.
US company with a published reseller program that tells you exactly what to put in the first email. On the evidence here, the education line we would build a school channel on first.
Read this as a market opening, not a product. LEGO ended SPIKE sales on 30 June 2026 and Mindstorms was already gone. The replacement is a brick build with hardware rather than a buildable robot, which leaves a real hole in the mid price classroom segment for another buildable platform.
Do not build a line around it. DJI shut its US education division in 2024, the store reports the product unavailable in this region, and DJI drones went onto the Covered List in December 2025. It comes up in every planning conversation and the answer is no.
Verified at 2.07 lb with Bluetooth only. In our view a programmable transforming humanoid is the easiest thing in this tier to demonstrate to a buyer.
Genuinely ambiguous and worth counsel time. Over the weight line and foreign produced, but the rule also requires an environment perceiving sensor and navigation, and we found no evidence these choreographed transformers carry either. Existing models predate the rule and are grandfathered regardless. The exposure is on future SKUs.
Vision driven humanoid kit with a multimodal model on board. Weight unpublished and plausibly near the line. Listed at MOQ 1 on the maker's own trade storefront, which makes a sample order cheap to test.
660 grams, well under. ROBOTIS has marked it end of life, so supply runs down as the last builds sell. That is the manufacturer retiring a product, not a regulatory limit. ROBOTIS runs a US arm in California with a published address and phone.
The highest risk item we looked at. Every source traces back to CES publicity in January 2026 and we found no post-ship review or delivery confirmation. Its height suggests a machine near or over the weight line, but no weight is published and we will not infer one. Foreign produced on the available evidence, which would have meant a fresh authorization after 28 July 2026. Get a spec sheet, and verify an FCC ID and grant date, before touching it.
All products above belong to their makers. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an authorized dealer for any of them unless a separate agreement says so in writing. Nothing here is legal advice. Weights marked unverified come from form factor rather than a published figure and must be confirmed against a supplier spec sheet before they inform a purchase decision. Country of manufacture is published almost nowhere in this segment, and because the test is now a component cost test rather than a brand test, marketing copy is not evidence. Ask for a certificate of origin and a bill of materials.
Different border,
different rulebook.
The Covered List is a US rule. The European market runs on CE marking under the Radio Equipment and Machinery frameworks, and platforms blocked here, including European makers like MAB Robotics and Chinese lines sold through EU distributors, remain available there. For buyers outside the US we quote against the destination country's regime, not ours.
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