New details from BMW and Figure AI reveal that while the Spartanburg pilot was a cultural and operational success, the "brute force" architecture of the Figure 02 was insufficient for global scaling.
In a revealing interview with Peter Diamandis, Figure CEO Brett Adcock details the total removal of hand-engineered code, the launch of his new AI lab HARK, and the timeline for robots building robots at Figure’s "BotQ" facility.
After Sunday Robotics CEO Tony Zhao critiqued Figure’s dishwasher demonstration for only using plastic, Figure CEO Brett Adcock responded with a new video of the Figure 03 handling delicate glassware.
Figure AI has revealed Helix 02, a unified neural network model that enables the Figure 03 robot to navigate and manipulate environments simultaneously, moving past the "walk-then-act" limitations of traditional humanoid systems.
Humanoid robotics firm Figure has launched a massive data collection initiative, 'Project Go-Big,' aiming to create an 'internet-scale' pretraining dataset by capturing human video in real-world homes. The project, accelerated by a partnership with real estate giant Brookfield, has already enabled Figure's robot to learn navigation from human video alone.