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Foundation, which is based in San Francisco, believes it is the only company across the U.S. and Europe explicitly working to build humanoid robots for defense.
Numerous top robotics companies have gone the other way, signing an open letter in 2022 committing not to “weaponize” their creations. AI giant Anthropic recently found itself blacklisted by the Pentagon because the company wanted assurances its systems wouldn’t be part of autonomous weapons that use lethal force without any human input. (The Pentagon, in turn, argued the military only wanted the AI for “lawful purposes” and was not trying to develop weapons that could kill without human authorization.)