Foundation Sends Cease & Desist Over ‘Humanoids for War’ Deck
Foundation Future Industries sent me a cease-and-desist after I reported on the company’s claims about Department of War funding and humanoid robot deployments in Ukraine.
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Humans Are Fighting Robots. Figure Is Melting Them. Has Robotics Gone Too Far?
Sixty-three years ago, The Twilight Zone imagined a future in which humanoid robots replace human boxers. Desperate for money, an …
Why the Media Should Stop Believing Foundation’s Military Robot Claims
Foundation Future Industries’ military claims just got a lot bigger, with the robotics startup boasting about tens of millions of dollars in Pentagon funding and saying that its humanoids have already seen combat.
Can 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs Make Robots Think Like Humans?
Figure AI is planning an unprecedented datacenter buildout that could bring frontier AI supercomputer scale to humanoid robotics for the first time.
Foundation: The Killer Robot Company Built on Claims Nobody Bothered to Check
It is remarkable how readily major news outlets repeat Foundation Future Industries’ claims about military contracts that are a matter of public record.
Sunday Robotics Is Selling a Home-Robot Breakthrough and a Fundraising Story
The Silicon Valley startup Sunday Robotics is hyping its new AI model as a massive breakthrough in home autonomy as it obviously needs a major funding round to keep momentum going.
1X’s NEO Hand Looks Incredible. The Economics Look Brutal.
1X is making huge claims about its robotic hand, calling it the “most advanced” in history. What they won’t say publicly, though, is that right now the economics do not add up.
YC-Backed Weave Robotics Drops Its Cheapest Home Robot Yet
The YCombinator-backed startup Weave Robotics just introduced its most advanced and cheapest robot yet, the Isaac 1.
The Great American Physical AI Gold Rush
America’s physical AI gold rush is exploding. Investors are shifting billions away from LLMs and into next-gen robotics, just as the US government gears up aggressive measures to close the gap on China’s breakneck push.
China’s T800 Humanoid Robot Hits America as Import Ban Gains Support
China’s Terminator has entered the US, but its stay might be short-lived as support grows in Washington for a ban on Chinese robot imports.
Figure AI Threatened to Sue Over a Story BMW Now Appears to Support
BMW’s announcement about expanding its partnership with Figure AI confirms the substance of a 2025 Fortune article that Figure founder Brett Adcock threatened to sue over.