Craig S. Smith
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2,710 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Craig S. Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The trip happened in February.
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We got to Kiev, but the robots were stopped at the Polish border and never arrived.
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Nonetheless, Mike's public relations team managed to get a big spread in time, the venerable media brand now owned by Mark Benioff, Salesforce's CEO.
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The article talks a lot about robotic warfare, but fudges the question of whether any foundation robots ever made it to Ukraine.
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It said simply that in February two phantoms were sent to Ukraine, initially for frontline reconnaissance support.
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But that was enough for news aggregators to pick it up, and pretty soon I was seeing headlines like robots in real war, Ukraine Battlefield tests Phantom Mach 1, Ukraine deploys humanoid robots in battlefield reconnaissance, and robots are heading to war, being tested in Ukraine.
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When I visited Foundation's operations in Spain,
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San Francisco in April, my skepticism grew.
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Mike's claim that the company went from an idea to building a complete humanoid in under two years left out that he and his founders started by buying an existing humanoid robot company named Boardwalk.
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What's more, some of the military contracts he mentions were carried over from that earlier company.
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Foundation shop felt like a research lab, not a factory.
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The robots on the floor were relatively lightweight machines, nothing that could withstand the recoil of a military weapon.
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An engineer giving me the tour gave one a shove, and it stumbled onto its knees, held up by a harness.
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The operation was producing about one robot a day, which made ten thousand this year seem impossible.
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The whole time I kept trying to square what I saw with the company's pitch.
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Machines that would cross rough terrain in a war zone and carry weapons.
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I spoke to Mike recently and he has several updates.
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A new, more robust model of the robot has been completed, six feet tall, a hundred and eighty five pounds, with arms that Mike claims can each lift eighty kilos, more than a hundred and seventy pounds each.
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And the company is opening a new production facility in Texas.
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They've scaled back this year's production target to six thousand robots instead of ten thousand.
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