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The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (Notifiable Acquisition) (Specification of Qualifying Entities) Regulations 2021

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1.  In this Schedule—

cognitive” means having the abilities of reasoning, perception, communication, learning, planning, problem solving, abstract thinking, decision making or organisation;

core components” means—

(a)

sensors enabling advanced robotics to track and sense its environment;

(b)

end effectors or other devices attached to advanced robotics allowing it to interact with its task or perform its operation;

(c)

locomotion, where the advanced robotics is capable of moving in its environment;

(d)

an energy source, including passive sources such as solar energy, providing power delivery enabling advanced robotics to move independently and to carry out its functions;

(e)

hardware or software enabling sophisticated computational capabilities, including the use of artificial intelligence to process data and data sets received from the sensors and adapt the behaviour of the advanced robotics;

(f)

communications capability, including the ability to communicate with a human operator or other advanced robotics.

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I1Sch. 2 para. 1 in force at 4.1.2022, see reg. 1(2)

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