That robot vacuum cleaning your house? It may soon be banned.

Your robo-vacuum may pose an unacceptable risk to national security — at least, that’s how the U.S. government sees it. This week, the Trump administration effectively banned the sale of humanoid robots made abroad — a regulatory swipe at China, which dominates the global market for human-shaped machines. The changes s

The ban comes after a White House-formed national security group determined that the foreign-made products posed a national security risk.

Yesterday the US government announced its was updating its list of banned foreign-made products to include “advanced robotic devices,” and today an FCC spokesperson confirmed that applies to robot vacuums too.