The US commerce secretary told executives in a closed-door meeting that the department is reviewing state-subsidized robotics imports as the US races China, Politico reports

Officials increasingly see China’s state-backed robotics industry as a national security threat, fearing subsidized Chinese robots could dominate global markets before U.S. manufacturers have the scale to compete. The roundtable brought together more than a dozen executives from companies including SpaceX, Boston Dynamics, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Siemens and Rockwell Automation to discuss how to reverse decades of manufacturing offshoring and rebuild the industrial base needed to build everything from semiconductors to robots.