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Figure builds general-purpose two-legged humanoid robots and Helix, its own vision-language-action AI model. It has gone through three generations (Figure 01, 02, 03) and makes them at BotQ, its own factory. Figure 02 worked on BMW's Spartanburg assembly line in 2025. Figure 03 is now delivered in volume for factory and logistics customers (BMW, Catalyst Brands) and aimed at the home. The company was valued at US$39B post-money in its September 2025 Series C. It was based in Sunnyvale until it moved its headquarters to San Jose.

4 humanoid models · 7 deployments on file · researched 2026-11-08

Headquarters
San Jose, United States
Founded
2022
Ownership
Private
Website
figure.ai
Focus
industrial, logistics, home
Leadership
Brett Adcock Founder and CEO ↗
Jerry Pratt CTO (as named May 2023) ↗
Employees
50 (2023) ↗
Last round
Series C · 2025-09 · $1B · at $39B valuation
Investors
Parkway Venture Capital, Brookfield Asset Management, NVIDIA, Macquarie Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, Tamarack Global, LG Technology Ventures, Salesforce, T-Mobile Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, Bezos Expeditions, ARK Invest, Aliya Capital, Bold Capital Partners, FJ Labs, Nscale
Production
350 shipped by 2026-04 · capacity 12,000 a year · 'over 350' Figure 03 delivered from BotQ; the rate went from 1 per day to 1 per hour in under 120 days. 12,000/yr is the stated capacity of BotQ's first-generation line (Mar 2025 post: https://www.figure.ai/news/botq) ↗
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Humanoids

Each model as the maker has shown it. Specs are maker-stated; a dash means no source states the figure.

ModelStatusAnnouncedHeightWeightDoFPayloadRuntimePrice
Figure 03 ↗Built for Helix and the home: a palm camera in each hand, fingertip sensors that detect 3 g, soft washable textiles, wireless charging, a 2.3 kWh battery and 10 Gbps mmWave data offload; designed for high-volume manufacturing at BotQ Commercial2025-10 173 cm61 kg —20 kg 5 h not published (height 5'8" and speed 1.2 m/s as published, converted to cm and km/h)
Figure 04 ↗Next generation; Figure says F.04 has an upcoming launch, but has published no specs Concept— —— —— — not published
Figure 02 ↗16-DoF hands (Robot Report: 'capable of carrying up to 25 kg'); battery in the torso with 50% more capacity than F.01; six RGB cameras; 3x the onboard compute; speech-to-speech with OpenAI-trained models. The fleet was retired in Nov 2025, and most units were melted down in Finland in Sep 2026 Retired2024-08 —— —25 kg — not published
Figure 01 ↗First generation; took its first steps in May 2023; cabling routed outside the chassis; battery in an external backpack Retired2023 —— —— — not published
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Deployments

Named customers, what the robots do there, and how far it has gone.

CustomerWhatWhenStage
BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC ↗Commercial agreement to deploy general-purpose humanoids in automotive production; milestone-based, with staged deployment at Plant Spartanburg after phase one2024-01Order
BMW Group ↗Two-week pilot of Figure 02 fitting sheet-metal parts at Plant Spartanburg; BMW said no Figure robots were then at the plant and gave no timetable2024-08Trial
BMW Group ↗11-month Figure 02 deployment at Plant Spartanburg: sheet-metal loading, 10-hour shifts Mon–Fri, 90,000+ parts, 1,250+ hours, contributed to 30,000+ X3 vehicles; ended with the F.02 retirement2025In service
BMW Group ↗Figure 03 running Helix 02 doing parts sequencing (logistics) in Hall 52 at Plant Spartanburg2026-06Pilot
Unnamed commercial client ↗Figure 02 robots delivered to a paying customer; Adcock: 'Figure officially became a revenue-generating company'2024-12In service
Catalyst Brands ↗Commercial agreement to deploy Figure humanoids in its distribution network, starting at the Reno, Nevada Distribution Logistics Center2026-05Order
Brookfield ↗Human-video data collection in Brookfield residential, office and logistics properties for Helix pretraining; robot deployment in its portfolio to be explored2025-09Pilot
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Dated facts

Milestones, orders, factories and filings, newest first.

  • 2026-09Nscale deal for up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs in Barstow, Texas from H2 2027: initial $3.5B compute commitment, intent to scale past $6B; Nscale also makes a strategic investment ↗
  • 2026-09Most of the Figure 02 fleet was decommissioned by having the robots jump into an electric arc furnace at a foundry in Imatra, Finland (idea credited to Arnold Schwarzenegger) ↗
  • 2026-08Launched Index, a paid app where people film real tasks as robot training data: 264,000 downloads in 108 countries, $15M paid out, commitment to spend over $1B on data and compute in the next 12 months ↗
  • 2026-04BotQ delivered 350+ Figure 03s and reached one robot per hour; end-of-line first-pass yield over 80%, 9,000+ actuators produced ↗
  • 2026-01Helix 02 released: one network controls the whole body; a 4-minute autonomous dishwasher unload/reload; System 0 replaces 109,504 lines of hand-written C++ ↗
  • 2025-11Figure 02 contributed to production of 30,000+ BMW X3s over an 11-month deployment; the F.02 fleet's retirement began ↗
  • 2025-09Series C exceeded $1B in committed capital at a $39B post-money valuation, led by Parkway Venture Capital ↗
  • 2025-03Announced BotQ, an in-house high-volume factory whose first-generation line can make up to 12,000 humanoids a year ↗
  • 2025-02Introduced Helix, a vision-language-action model controlling the full upper body, running entirely on onboard low-power GPUs, and able to run on two robots at once ↗
  • 2024-02Raised $675M Series B at a $2.6B valuation (Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, NVIDIA, Bezos Expeditions, others) and signed a collaboration agreement with OpenAI on AI models for humanoids; Microsoft Azure for AI infrastructure ↗
  • 2023-05$70M Series A led by Parkway Venture Capital, to develop Figure 01 and push toward commercialization ↗
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Not yet confirmed

Claims seen in only one non-official place. Shown so they can be checked, not as findings.

  • About 600 employees and ~740 robots operating by end of June 2026 (Wikipedia, citing The Daily Star, 2026-06-22)
  • Total raised about $1.9B (Wikipedia, citing a Forbes headline, 2026-09-05)
  • Home lease of Figure robots at around $600 a month, per Adcock in May 2026 (Wikipedia, citing Moomoo)
  • Figure 04 design locked in May 2026 (Wikipedia, citing Gasgoo Auto News)
  • OpenAI collaboration ended around Feb 2025 (Wikipedia, citing The Decoder)
  • Nov 2025 lawsuit by the former head of product safety, alleging he was fired after raising concerns that the robots could fracture a human skull (Wikipedia, citing CNBC; CNBC not fetched per brief)
  • Figure 03 appeared with First Lady Melania Trump at a White House event, Mar 2026 (Wikipedia, citing CNBC)
  • Cease-and-desist letters to secondary-market brokers selling its stock, Apr 2025 (Wikipedia, citing TechCrunch); Figure's own notice exists at https://www.figure.ai/news/notice-regarding-unauthorized-attempts-to-sell-figure-stock but was not fetched
  • Figure 01 specs 5'6", 60 kg, 20 kg payload, 5 h, 1.2 m/s and Figure 02 weight 70 kg vs 60 kg (spec aggregators only, sources disagree; no first-party page found)
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Sources

Retrieved 2026-11-08.

  1. Figure 03 — Figure
  2. Company — Figure
  3. Master Plan — Figure
  4. Introducing Figure 03 — Figure
  5. F.03 Battery Development — Figure
  6. F.02 Contributed to the Production of 30,000 Cars at BMW — Figure
  7. F.03 Arrives at BMW — Figure
  8. Figure Exceeds $1B in Series C Funding at $39B Post-Money Valuation — Figure
  9. Figure Announces Strategic Partnership with Brookfield — Figure
  10. Figure Signs Agreement with Catalyst Brands to Scale Humanoid Operations — Figure
  11. Ramping Figure 03 Production — Figure
  12. BotQ: A High-Volume Manufacturing Facility for Humanoid Robots — Figure
  13. Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control — Figure
  14. Introducing Helix 02: Full-Body Autonomy — Figure
  15. Helix Accelerating Real-World Logistics — Figure
  16. Introducing Index — Figure
  17. Figure and Nscale Sign Strategic Partnership — Figure
  18. F.02 Decommission — Figure
  19. Figure announces $70M Series A — PR Newswire / Figure AI Inc.
  20. Figure announces commercial agreement with BMW Manufacturing — PR Newswire / Figure AI Inc.
  21. Figure Raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation and Signs Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI — PR Newswire / Figure AI Inc.
  22. Figure unveils Figure 02 — PR Newswire / Figure AI Inc.
  23. Nscale and Figure Sign Strategic Partnership — PR Newswire / Nscale
  24. Figure 02 humanoid robot is ready to get to work — The Robot Report
  25. BMW tests Figure 02 humanoid on production line — The Robot Report
  26. Figure AI ships Figure 02 humanoid robots to a paying customer — The Robot Report
  27. Figure AI — Wikipedia