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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 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.
Following the retirement of its second-generation fleet, Figure returns to BMW’s South Carolina plant with Figure 03 to tackle complex material sorting and sequencing tasks.
The $39 billion robotics startup is taking its humanoid fleet to a major retail distribution center in Reno, marking the first commercial bridge with a portfolio company of mutual investor Brookfield.
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.
What began as a one-shift challenge has evolved into a multi-day endurance test for Figure’s Helix-02 neural network, as the company’s "Bob, Frank, and Gary" units attempt to hold the line under the gaze of thousands of live viewers.
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.
Following a public challenge regarding the industrial utility of humanoids, Figure CEO Brett Adcock has committed to a live broadcast of the company's autonomous operations to prove 24/7 reliability.
Figure reveals a major software milestone as two F.03 humanoids coordinate autonomously to tidy a bedroom and make a bed without a central controller.
