UK blocks China from licensing Manchester Uni's robot vision tech

National Security and Investment Act used to prevent export felt to have nasty defense implications The Government of the United Kingdom has used a national security law to block the licensing of locally-developed technology to a foreign entity, preventing a deal that would have provided a Chinese company with robot vision tech . The intellectual property, known as SCAMP -5 and SCAMP -7, was developed by the University of Manchester . As described in a funding proposal , the tech aims “to tightly integrate novel sensing and processing hardware, together with vision , navigation and control algorithms, to enable the…