Samuel Reeves: Founder and CEO of FORT Robotics

Landmine clearance

Reeves studied at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 2005. As a student he co-founded Humanistic Robotics with industrial designer Josh Koplin to build cheaper machines for clearing landmines.¹

With Defense Department research funding and later government contracts, the company built mine rollers, including custom rollers for the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, and then remote-control kits that turned ordinary vehicles into robots.¹

Founding FORT

Reeves founded FORT in 2018, out of what FORT describes as a decade of landmine work that showed robots lacked the infrastructure to operate safely and securely around people.²

FORT now has more than 19,500 units at over 600 customers. On October 22, 2026, it announced about $20 million in new commitments led by Tiger Global ahead of a planned listing on Nasdaq as FROB.^3,4

We believe the opportunity for FORT has never been greater, and this investment positions us to move faster as physical AI adoption accelerates.FORT Robotics funding announcement

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Photo: FORT Robotics, About.