Humanoid Robots Headed to War? Hands-On With Phantom MK1

At Foundation's headquarters in San Francisco, we met the Phantom MK1 humanoid robot and controlled it using a VR headset. Listen to the CEO discuss his aspirations to deploy the robot in factories, battlefields and, someday, on Mars.

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Humanoid Robots Headed to War? I Went Hands-On With the Phantom MK1 https://zdcs.link/z31b22

0:00 Intro
0:45 Meet the Phantom MK1
1:20 New Robot Hands
1:55 Training for Robot Boxing
2:22 Teleoperation Demo
3:19 Humanoid Robots in War?
4:57 Robot Walking Demo
5:41 Robots and the Labor Market

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