Figure Taps Brookfield's Global Real Estate Portfolio to Scale AI Training

SUNNYVALE, CA — Humanoid robotics startup Figure announced a strategic partnership with Brookfield, one of the world’s largest alternative asset managers, in a deal aimed at solving one of the biggest hurdles in robotics: acquiring massive amounts of real-world training data.

The agreement gives Figure access to Brookfield's extensive global real estate portfolio, which includes over 100,000 residential units and hundreds of millions of square feet of commercial and logistics space. Figure plans to leverage these diverse, human-centric environments to create what it calls "the world’s largest and most diverse real-world humanoid pretraining dataset."

Solving the Data Bottleneck

For general-purpose humanoid robots to become truly useful, their AI systems must learn to navigate and perform tasks in the complex, unstructured environments built for humans. This requires a colossal amount of training data that is difficult to obtain in a lab setting.

The partnership directly tackles this challenge. By capturing human video data across Brookfield's varied properties—from apartment buildings to office towers and warehouses—Figure aims to rapidly scale its proprietary AI model, Helix. This vision-language-action model is the brain behind the Figure 02 robot, enabling it to perceive its surroundings and execute tasks.

"Brookfield’s scale gives us an unmatched platform to capture massive amounts of real-world, humanlike navigation and manipulation data," said Brett Adcock, Founder and CEO of Figure, in the announcement.

A Path to Commercial Deployment

The collaboration extends beyond data collection. The two companies will also explore building out critical AI infrastructure, such as next-generation GPU data centers and dedicated robotic training facilities.

More significantly, the partnership establishes a clear pathway for deploying Figure's humanoids in commercial settings across Brookfield’s portfolio over time. While specific use cases have not yet been detailed, this provides Figure with a built-in customer and a real-world testbed to prove its technology's value and scalability. Bruce Flatt, CEO of Brookfield, noted the collaboration furthers the company's position "at the forefront of integrating artificial intelligence to drive productivity in real assets and business."

The announcement comes on the heels of Figure's recent Series C funding round, which raised over $1 billion to accelerate its rollout. Brookfield was a key participant in that round, signaling that this operational partnership has been a core part of the investment strategy. By securing both the capital and the real-world access needed for training and deployment, Figure is aggressively positioning itself to move from R&D to commercial reality in the competitive humanoid robotics space.

Read the official press release here