Product profile
Phantom MK1
Phantom MK1 is Foundation humanoid robot platform for industrial and defense tasks. Public materials describe a camera-first humanoid built for human space...
Facts
- Company
- Foundation Robotics
- Product type
- humanoid
- Status
- development
- Website
- https://foundation.bot/phantom
About Phantom MK1
Phantom is a 1.8 m, 80 kg humanoid with 29 degrees of freedom and a stated walking speed of 1.7 m/s. Foundation lists payload capacity up to 40 kg and uses proprietary cycloidal actuators delivering peak torque of 160 Nm with low back-driving resistance. Cameras and onboard sensing provide the primary perception inputs for operation in human-scale environments.
Cortex software converts task instructions and perception into whole-body motion, while teleoperation and collected demonstrations support early skill development. Foundation describes Phantom as its first production humanoid and is preparing pilot deployments across industrial and defence work. The platform is in early production and customer-validation activity.
Market context
humanoid_v1, Foundation developed Phantom from the Boardwalk/Alex platform after acquiring Boardwalk Robotics., weak_public_detail, defense_and_industrial_testing, https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/phantom.png, clean_photo_or_studio_fallback, early_field_platform, 2026-06-03, generated_studio_from_official_product_reference, https://foundation.bot/phantom
Summary
Type: Humanoid
Core: Field platform
Function: Manipulation
Audience: Defense
Specifications
- battery_swappable
- yes
- core_functions
- LLM-driven action model (intent → motion); teleoperation (human-in-the-loop control); camera-first perception stack (no LiDAR emphasis)
- deployment_model
- defense_and_industrial_testing
- height_cm
- 175 cm
- max_speed_mps
- 1.7 m/s
- payload_kg
- 20 kg
- platform_role
- early_field_platform
- platform_type
- humanoid_v1
- total_dof
- 40 DoF
- weight_kg
- 80 kg
Operations
- Product detail
- humanoid_v1, Foundation developed Phantom from the Boardwalk/Alex platform after acquiring Boardwalk Robotics., weak_public_detail, defense_and_industrial_testing, https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/phantom.png, clean_photo_or_studio_fallback, early_field_platform, 2026-06-03, generated_studio_from_official_product_reference, https://foundation.bot/phantom
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Foundation and AMD partner on Phantom MK-2 humanoid compute — 2026-07-23
- Foundation plans 50,000 Phantom humanoids for industrial and defense deployment by 2027 — 2025-12-17
- Foundation co-founder Mike LeBlanc partners with military for Phantom humanoid operations — 2025-12-16
- Foundation demonstrates Phantom MK1 humanoid with teleoperation interface — 2025-12-01
- Foundation Robotics Demonstrates Phantom MK1 at Newsweek HQ — 2025-11-20