Most of the hundreds of humanoid robot startups around the world are building robots for work, whether in the factory, the community, or the home. Silicon Valley startup Foundation is too, but it’s also explicitly targeting the U.S. military as a customer for Phantom, its 5’9″, 180-pound humanoid robot. In fact, Phantom will both carry lethal weaponry and fight, and CEO Sankaet Pathak plans to build 50,000 of them in near-record time: by the end of 2027. “You should really work hard to give the U.S. military smarter tools so that they can be more effective,” Pathak told me in a recent TechFirst interview. And he’s not shy about giving Phantom an M4 Carbine, either, adding that “if you’re first body in and you’re docile, then the enemies are not going to really expose themselves. So you have to be first body in and deadly.”

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