This Trump-linked company is set to put humanoid robots in the military
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As Silicon Valley races to build humanoid robots that can fold laundry and pour a latte, at least one start-up sees a different use for the technology: war or other potentially hazardous and deadly jobs.
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I expect tracked, flying and underwater robots to replace human forces," said Toby Walsh, chief scientist at The University of New South Wales's AI Institute
Foundation aims to send new and improved robots to Ukraine this year in the form of its Phantom 2, which Pathak says will come with "superhuman abilities" and double the payload capacity of Phantom 1
According to Pathak, the MK-1 testing in Ukraine has already proved the robot's potential to perform supply pickups, which often expose soldiers to danger
Kateryna Bondar, a senior fellow with the Wadhwani AI Center at CSIS, told CNBC that humanoid robots could theoretically provide certain upsides on the battlefield due to their autonomy
Summary
Meet Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco-based robotics company with ties to the Trump family, developing 'dual-use' autonomous humanoid robots for both heavy industrial environments and military applications. While the robots sound like something out of a Terminator-esque science fiction movie, they are nearing reality, with early iterations undergoing tests in Ukraine for potential use in Kyiv's war against Russia.