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San Mateo County Passes Resolution To Regulate Commercial Humanoid Robots
San Mateo County Passes Resolution To Regulate Commercial Humanoid Robots
Authored by Lear Zhou via The Epoch Times,
San Mateo County may become the first in California to regulate humanoid robots used for commercial purposes.
The county board of supervisors on Aug. 11 passed a resolution sponsored by Supervisor Ray Mueller to direct county legal and administrative staff to draft an ordinance regulating the use of untethered autonomous or semi-autonomous humanoid robots, or “mobile humanoid robots,” in restaurants, retail stores, and other businesses.
State law already regulates autonomous vehicles but not the commercial...
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