Key Takeaways

• A federal action taken on July 28 shut new foreign-made mobile robots out of the United States market overnight. The rule captures far more than the humanoid machines that made the headlines.
• One entire category of industrial robot was excluded from the rule by name, and it happens to be the category steel uses most. Knowing which one changes how an automation budget should be sequenced.
• The restriction lands unevenly across steel. One environment loses its cheapest automation path, one is barely touched, and one has its strongest business case left completely intact.

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