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Mike LeBlanc

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Mike LeBlanc is the co-founder of Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco-based humanoid robotics company focused on defense applications. He is a Harvard Business School graduate and former U.S. Marine Corps officer who served 13 years, including deployments to Afghanistan and with the First Reconnaissance Battalion and Joint Special Operations. He previously co-founded Cobalt Robotics, a security robot startup, before founding Foundation in 2024 to develop humanoid robots for military and industrial use.

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mention·Eye on AI·APRIL 12, 2026

I had a conversation with a guy, Mike LeBlanc, he's got a startup called Foundation and he's doing humanoids for the military. They're training them to do one thing — put an explosive charge on a door, which is a very dangerous thing for a soldier to do.

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