These Robot Soldiers Are Getting Downright Terrifying

By Victor Tangermann
Published Sep 15, 2026

Excerpt: "Aerial drones have become a startlingly common sight on the battlefield. Ukraine, for instance, has been deploying a record number of them as global demand for the often inexpensive and relatively simple to launch devices surges.

"But US-based firms are thinking far ahead, envisioning a dystopian #Terminator -inspired future in which humanoid robot soldiers go to war on behalf of their flesh-and-blood counterparts.

"Case in point, San Francisco-based tech company #Foundation recently signed a $24 million #Pentagon contract to do just that, as the Wall Street Journal reports. While the company’s flagship #PhantomMK1 robot, an unsettling matte black apparition, doesn’t appear to be ready to hold a gun or run into open fire on its own any time soon, the #EricTrump -backed company is far from ruling out the idea.

"When the tech progresses enough to allow robots to reason and adapt to their behavior, 'instead of dropping a bomb in a building, you can send humanoids to actually walk inside that building and go directly to the target,' Foundation CEO #SankaetPathak told the WSJ.

"In an interview last year, Pathak wasn’t willing to rule out the possibility of handing one of its robots a gun, either."

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