The Door Closes. The Robot Keeps Knocking.

Sometimes a closed door just makes the hallway on the other side a whole lot louder.

The Door Closes. The Robot Keeps Knocking.

Somewhere in Washington, a quiet door has been nudged shut on Chinese-made robots — not slammed, just slowly, carefully, with a thick stack of paperwork as the doorstop. Meanwhile, the bots themselves keep doing their thing on the other side: tightening screws, taking little bows at trade shows, and not really caring who's reading the memo. Funny how it works — the tighter the door, the louder the hallway gets. The opening scene is barely over.

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