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Figure’s public all-hands outlines new hardware, 37.5 million human-video uploads and billions in planned compute spending, alongside a Helix 3.0 teaser.
Brett Adcock says Figure 03 has covered 348 miles in a treadmill stress test that began as a side project to expose failures—and is still running.
Figure’s farewell film takes its retired humanoids to a furnace in Finland, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, a final thumbs-up and bonus jumps into the molten metal.
An AI-generated teaser points to September 30 after Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested melting Figure’s retired robots—overruling, perhaps, a poll that favored blowing them up.
Figure backs NVIDIA’s agent-safety initiative, while Gecko’s CEO outlines inspection robots working within human-set limits. How the platform will be integrated into Figure’s robots remains undisclosed.
A short clip of a Figure robot stepping out of a vehicle recalls its earlier parcel-delivery footage, but no delivery service has been announced in the post.
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).
