Foundation Robotics founder and CEO Sankaet Pathak says their humanoid relies solely on cameras; adding other sensors introduces noise and complexity that far outweigh the benefits.

Our proprietary actuators are one of the features that make Phantom special. They enable us to build robots that are smooth, powerful, and safe to be around. Learn more about our design in this video.

The new Phantom animation on Foundation website is🔥

Like LLMs, autoregressive transformers for action tokens need a reasoning layer to reduce hallucinations and boost reliability. Grounding this layer in the physics of the action space using DVBFs makes for scalable, task-agnostic training—far simpler than creating RL reward

This weekend marked a pivotal day for Foundation. We officially shipped our first production robot to a customer. It took us 13 months from idea to deployment—faster than any other humanoid company. But the real work starts now. The next few months will be grueling as we

We’ve been deep in our first auto manufacturing deployment. Meanwhile, we’re tackling next use cases for the next two customers in consumer goods manufacturing. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s coming!

While some humanoids keep talking, Foundation is already deploying. Adoption beats having a “vision“… every time.

Our first training cluster is now live. It’s a small cluster we built to develop the infrastructure needed to create our compute-as-a-service platform, which will enable any developer at Foundation to provision compute for training and fine-tuning models through a simple

These are the wheeled robots we shipped for commercial use! No more wheeled units are being built; we are only building legged robots and will decommission wheeled units by year-end.

Update on deployment - our robot now outperforms human cycle time (the time it takes a human to complete the task from start to finish)! Full shifts are still a work in progress, but confident we are close!

Large robot fleets will operate in cities and some held in reserve, like the military, ready to deploy to remote locations on Earth and beyond. Few people will own robots; instead, they'll request one or more on demand for various tasks they need done.

Gentle singularity

Excited to share that Foundation achieved 87% OEE (overall equipment effectiveness), the key metric for manufacturing efficiency, at our first deployment! We're close to running full shifts.

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The future is here - Palmer Luckey dialing in with VR to have a live conversation with Ashlee Vance, leveraging Foundation humanoid robot. Only at Reindustrialize.

It was fun partnering with Palmer Luckey and Ashlee Vance on this. Hands down the highlight of the day! Kudos to the Foundation team for making it happen!

.Sankaet is the founder and CEO of Foundation. Sankaet believes humanoids are the obvious, hard answer to automating work humans don’t want to do. We sat down at Foundation’s San Francisco office to talk about the vision, actuator technology, business case, AI, and more.

We’ve kicked off the build of our first production manufacturing cell in downtown San Francisco, capable of producing hundreds of robots per year. Next year, our goal will be to scale these cells in a larger factory to produce 10,000+ robots in 2026.

We are moving from model controller to RL for locomotion. The policy is starting to look quite robust. Even more convinced now that legs are easier than wheels, given the software complexity has shrunk tremendously with RL.

I think we have made a lot of progress Foundation with a fraction of the funding. Discipline wins. Should we make a $BTC foundation meme coin