Every machine
on the board.
Who can actually ship.
The world market for ground robots, from a forty dollar desk toy to a two hundred thousand dollar humanoid, mapped against the FCC Covered List. FCC IDs and grant dates where the public 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.
The most widely deployed 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, stocked by major US resellers.
Manufacturer attests the grant predates the cutoff. 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. The mature industrial choice.
Built at RoboFab in Oregon. The only openly orderable US-made industrial humanoid.
Assembled in Hayward, CA. The only home humanoid with US production. Domestic content share not publicly evidenced.
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. Regulatory status reflects public records on the compiled date and 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 a three hundred dollar robot dog imports on a footing a fifteen thousand dollar 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.
Stock is not grandfathered. A unit built or warehoused before 28 July 2026 that never received an authorization is dead stock, not a legacy sale. Only the authorization is grandfathered, never the inventory.
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.
The best known desktop companion 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. The most expressive machine in the segment and the one that demonstrates best on a shop floor.
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. There is a Better Business Bureau complaint record against the entity, so read it before prepaying or extending credit.
The one genuine problem in this category. It meets every element: foreign produced, 4.85 lb, environmental sensors, Wi-Fi, autonomous navigation. It survives on grandfathering alone. Sony halted Japan sales in mid 2026 and is winding the generation down, so US stock is finite and shrinking.
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.
The best single 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 at three hundred dollars. 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.
The cheapest credible ladder into robotics on this board, starting under a hundred dollars. SunFounder publishes a named distributor address, which is rare at this price point.
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. The safest education line to build a school channel on.
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 that a stocked alternative can fill.
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. A programmable transforming humanoid at four hundred dollars is the single most demonstrable object in this price band.
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. Note that the manufacturer has marked it end of life, so any stock is finite. 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. It is over the weight line, foreign produced on the available evidence, and would have needed a fresh authorization after 28 July 2026. 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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