
A student robot once drove into a wall because it could not reverse. Two decades later, the engineer behind it is running Anduril on the same essential wager: build, test, learn, and keep moving.

He built a headset in a trailer, sold the future to Facebook, then returned with drones, submarines and a Tolkien sword. Across two very different industries, Palmer Luckey has kept making the same wager: working hardware can change what institutions believe is possible.

Before Matt Grimm helped Anduril build an arsenal, he helped a student robot cross the desert. His career has been a long argument that the future only matters once somebody can manufacture it.