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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...