Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Humanoid robots are already folding clothes, running marathons, and assembling cars — so it was probably only a matter of time before they ended up fighting on the frontlines, too. In a recent interview with Time, Mike LeBlanc, a combat veteran and co-founder of the robotics firm Foundation, revealed his company has already sent humanoid robots to the war-torn battlefields of Ukraine. Back in February, Foundation sent two Phantom Mk-I units for frontline reconnaissance duty, Leblanc shared. Though the Mk-I platform is already deployed for trials in factories around the world, this would seem to mark the first deployment of a humanoid robot to the frontlines of the Ukraine-Russia war — or, as far as we can tell, any theater of combat. “We think there’s a moral imperative to put these robots into war instead of soldiers,” LeBlanc told Time. His goal is to eventually build Phantom into a robot that can use “any kind of weapon that …