The first humanoid robot to clear the European Union's mandatory cybersecurity standard is made by a subsidiary of a Chinese state-linked automaker — and the certification that opens European doors does not close the one that China's National Intelligence Law keeps permanently ajar. AiMOGA Robotics, the embodied AI arm of Chery Automobile, is exhibiting its Mornine humanoid at IFA Berlin 2026 this week with credentials that no other humanoid brand can currently claim: triple EU certification including EN 18031, the cybersecurity framework for connected products that became enforceable on August 1, 2025. Mornine is scheduled to walk the inaugural "Robots on the Runway" catwalk on the Creator Stage at Messe Berlin on September 5 alongside Unitree, AgiBot, and nine other robotics firms. It will do so as the most commercially deployed humanoid brand in the world — and as a product whose parent company must cooperate with Chinese government intelligence requests under Article 7 of China's National Intelligence Law. These two facts are not in conflict, and that is precisely what procurement officers and institutional buyers need to understand before making a decision. AiMOGA's EU certification was awarded by TÜV Rheinland in September 2025, covering hardware safety, radio equipment, and cybersecurity — but the certification addresses only unauthorized external access, not government-directed intelligence requests. What AiMOGA Is, and Where It Comes From AiMOGA Robotics was founded in January 2025 as Chery Automobile's dedicated embodied AI subsidiary. Chery — China's largest passenger vehicle exporter, a Fortune Global 500 company with approximately CN¥480 billion (approximately $71.5 billion) in annual revenue — chose to build AiMOGA on a specific engineering thesis: that the manufacturing discipline required to produce automobiles at scale translates directly into making better robots. Chery holds approximately 77 percent of AiMOGA, with Anhui and Wuhu municipal governments among the indirect