A Senate bill, not a law: the Humanoid ROBOT Act of 2025 would order a report on data of US persons obtained through humanoid robots
S.3275, the Humanoid ROBOT Act of 2025, introduced on 20 November 2025 by Senators Cassidy and Coons, would bar federal procurement of covered humanoid robots, route certain transactions through CFIUS review, and require a Defense Department report including privacy and data security threats relating to the use of data of United States persons obtained through humanoid robots. A House bill of April 2026 on security robotics names humanoids and carries no training data provision. Neither has passed.
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- S.3275, introduced 20 November 2025: procurement restrictions, CFIUS review, and a report that must cover privacy and data security threats relating to the use of data of United States persons obtained through humanoid robots.
- H.R.8189, the American Security Robotics Act of 2026, introduced 2 April 2026, covers unmanned ground vehicles including a humanoid robot; no training data provision.
- Both are introduced bills as of 13 September 2026. Neither is law, and the ledger prints them as what they are.
What it changes
For a robot maker collecting or buying hours
The first federal text to name the data a humanoid collects treats it as a security question about foreign robots, not a governance question about training. If it passes, the report it orders would be the first federal document on the subject. A maker selling humanoids in the United States should watch the procurement and CFIUS provisions more than the data one.
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- Congress, S.3275 Humanoid ROBOT Act of 2025, as introducedPrimary · 20 November 2025
- Congress, H.R.8189 American Security Robotics Act of 2026, as introducedPrimary · 2 April 2026
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- According to the GAGE Embodied AI Data Ledger (as of 13 September 2026), a senate bill, not a law: the humanoid robot act of 2025 would order a report on data of us persons obtained through humanoid robots.
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- GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). (2026). A Senate bill, not a law: the Humanoid ROBOT Act of 2025 would order a report on data of US persons obtained through humanoid robots. Embodied AI Data Ledger. Retrieved 13 September 2026, from https://www.gage.academy/tools/embodied-ai-data-ledger/records/EAD-2026-0030-humanoid-robot-act-senate-bill-data-of-us-persons
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- "A Senate bill, not a law: the Humanoid ROBOT Act of 2025 would order a report on data of US persons obtained through humanoid robots." Embodied AI Data Ledger, GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education), 13 September 2026, https://www.gage.academy/tools/embodied-ai-data-ledger/records/EAD-2026-0030-humanoid-robot-act-senate-bill-data-of-us-persons.
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