Facts

• Company: Foundation Robotics
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: development

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Record / Articles
• Timeline / Research
• Sources

Summary

Phantom MK1 is Foundation humanoid robot platform for industrial and defense tasks. Public materials describe a camera-first humanoid built for human spaces, with payload, mobility and task-to-motion software under development.

Overview

Phantom MK1 is Foundation humanoid robot platform for industrial and defense tasks. Public materials describe a camera-first humanoid built for human spaces, with payload, mobility and task-to-motion software under development.

Market context

Phantom MK1 is Foundation Robotics' human-scale humanoid for industrial and defense-oriented hazardous tasks.

• Target environment: Industrial sites, defense support environments, hazardous facilities and structured field settings.
• Workflow context: Teleoperation, camera-first perception, LLM-assisted control, humanoid manipulation and high-risk task support.
• Customer context: Defense users, industrial operators and partners evaluating humanoids for first-entry or hazardous work.
• Deployment model: Development-stage humanoid platform from Foundation Robotics.
• Commercial maturity: Development-stage humanoid product with maturity tied to product validation, customer pilots, and clearer commercial deployment.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on autonomy, teleoperation latency, safety, manipulation, ruggedness, procurement and site-specific task proof.
• Market position: Defense and industrial humanoid lane framed around hazardous work rather than domestic assistance.
• Adjacent products: Persona, Apptronik Apollo, Figure 03, Moby

Audience

Defense

Workflow

Teleoperation, camera-first perception, LLM-assisted control, humanoid manipulation and high-risk task support.

Capability

Humanoid

Deployment environment

Industrial sites, defense support environments, hazardous facilities and structured field settings.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Defense
• Workflow: Teleoperation, camera-first perception, LLM-assisted control, humanoid manipulation and high-risk task support.
• Capability: Humanoid
• Deployment environment: Industrial sites, defense support environments, hazardous facilities and structured field settings.

Specifications

• Height Cm: 175 cm
• Weight Kg: 80 kg
• Payload Kg: 20 kg
• Max Speed Mps: 1.7 m/s
• Total Dof: 40 DoF
• Battery Swappable: yes
• Core Functions: LLM-driven action model (intent → motion); teleoperation (human-in-the-loop control); camera-first perception stack (no LiDAR emphasis)
• Platform Type: humanoid_v1
• Deployment Model: defense_and_industrial_testing
• Platform Role: early_field_platform

Record / Articles

• 2025-04-15 - Article - Foundation debuts Phantom MK-1, its industrial and defence humanoid

Timeline / Research

• 2025-12-17 - Production Milestone - Foundation plans 50,000 Phantom humanoids for industrial and defense deployment by 2027 - Company outlined roadmap scaling from ~40 units in 2025 to 50,000 by 2027
• 2025-12-01 - Demonstration - Foundation demonstrates Phantom MK1 humanoid with teleoperation interface - Phantom MK1 shown operating via VR-based teleoperation system
• 2025-11-20 - Demonstration - Foundation Robotics Demonstrates Phantom MK1 at Newsweek HQ - Foundation Robotics showcased the Phantom MK1 humanoid robot at Newsweek's New York City headquarters.