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Foundation Sends Cease & Desist Over ‘Humanoids for War’ Deck

October 5, 2026 by Mike Kalil
AI rendering of Phantom MK1 humanoid robot holding a stop sign

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.

Humans Are Fighting Robots. Figure Is Melting Them. Has Robotics Gone Too Far?

October 4, 2026 by Mike Kalil
Real-life Terminators: REK's T800 and Figure 02

Sixty-three years ago, The Twilight Zone imagined a future in which humanoid robots replace human boxers. Desperate for money, an …

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Why the Media Should Stop Believing Foundation’s Military Robot Claims

October 7, 2026September 30, 2026 by Mike Kalil
Illustration: Foundation Phantom MK1 humanoid robot in Ukraine

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.

How China Went from Copying Industrial Robots to Dominating the Market

September 27, 2026 by Mike Kalil
Illustration: Chinese robotics empire

The spotlight is on China’s robotics sector. It’s mostly directed at humanoids, but what if that’s just a distraction?

The Biggest Urban Legends in Humanoid Robotics

September 26, 2026 by Mike Kalil
Urban legends in humanoid robotics

The humanoid robotics sector has its own urban legends that rarely get debunked. The companies building the robots have little incentive to pushback on them so I will.

EngineAI’s T800 Humanoid Is Fighting Its Way Around the World

September 22, 2026 by Mike Kalil
EngineAI T800 robot fighters worldwide

EngineAI’s Terminator-inspired T800 is now fighting worldwide against both robots and humans.

Humanoid Robot Mega Factories Are Starting to Come Online

September 19, 2026 by Mike Kalil
UBTECH Mega Factory

We’re entering the era of humanoid robot mega factories.

Agility’s SPAC: Can Wall Street Save a Humanoid Robot Pioneer?

September 15, 2026September 15, 2026 by Mike Kalil
Agility Digit V5 humanoid robot

As Agility finds itself in its biggest spotlight yet, can it prove that being early still matters? Or will it become a cautionary tale of the physical AI boom?

The Kids Who Grew Up with Baymax Are Now Building Him

September 9, 2026 by Mike Kalil
Baymax inflatable over rigid humanoid robot

Many of today’s robotics leaders grew up inspired by The Terminator, but the next generation grew up with a very different and softer vision of the future: Baymax.

Agility Robotics Warns of Cash Crunch as Humanoid Race Heats Up

September 7, 2026 by Mike Kalil
Agility Robotics SEC Filing

It looks like Figure AI founder Brett Adcock was onto something last year when he predicted that Agility Robotics would …

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Can 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs Make Robots Think Like Humans?

September 5, 2026 by Mike Kalil
Figure AI datacenter concept

Figure AI is planning an unprecedented datacenter buildout that could bring frontier AI supercomputer scale to humanoid robotics for the first time.

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