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In a recent podcast appearance, Figure founder Brett Adcock pushed back against humanoid hype, arguing that the true bottleneck is onboard intelligence, not hardware manufacturing, and claiming early customers are already seeing a real-world return on investment.
Figure CEO Brett Adcock dismissed tendon-driven hands as a "complete local maximum," igniting a fierce debate with Foundation over friction, force, and the future of humanoid manipulation.
Figure CEO Brett Adcock has revealed footage of the Figure 03 autonomously climbing a ladder, a milestone he used to declare wheeled robots an "utter dead end."
Figure CEO Brett Adcock announces the production of the 1,000th Figure 03 robot at the company’s BotQ facility, celebrating the milestone with a C-3PO-inspired golden humanoid.
Figure CEO Brett Adcock announced a massive secondary liquidity event for employees, sparking an industry-wide debate on compensation, equity risk, and corporate milestones in the humanoid robotics sector.
What started as a modest 8-hour challenge just transformed into an unprecedented 200-hour endurance flex. Here is how Brett Adcock’s multi-day robotics marathon finally ended (with bubbly, of course).
Figure AI pitted a human intern against its Figure 03 autonomous humanoid fleet in a head-to-head package sorting trial. While humanity secured a narrow victory, the machine fleet proved its real value through unbroken persistence.
Figure's unedited autonomous livestream has crossed 61 hours, sorting over 80,000 packages. CEO Brett Adcock addresses teleoperation skepticism, details a total shift away from Chinese supply chains, and teases Figure 4 as an "iPhone 1 moment" for robotics.
Figure AI has launched its promised 8-hour livestream. While the robot is crushing its sub-3-second speed targets, some viewers are questioning the narrow scope of the demonstration.
Figure CEO Brett Adcock announces that the company’s next-generation humanoid, Figure 04, has entered production preparation, marking a radical shift in engineering and manufacturability.
In the second half of an extensive facility tour, CEO Brett Adcock details Figure’s "Never Fall" protocol, wireless inductive charging, and the roadmap for embodied AGI.
In a new interview with Molly O’Shea, Figure CEO Brett Adcock details the aggressive vertical integration of his robotics empire, his split with OpenAI, and why he is building three companies at once.
