Figure AI
Humanoid robot company · USA
Humanoid robotics company building general-purpose robots for work and the home. Figure 02 was deployed at BMW Spartanburg; Figure 03 runs the in-house Helix vision-language-action model, and Helix 2.5 (Sept 2026) completed household tasks zero-shot in 30 unseen homes. Backed by Microsoft, NVIDIA and Bezos Expeditions.
Figure AI is a USA-based humanoid robot maker, founded in 2022. It is privately held. Product lines include Figure 03, Figure 02, Helix 2.5 (VLA model). It appears in the directory's Humanoid Robot Companies (32 companies) and US Robot Manufacturers (28 companies) lists.
- Headquarters
- USA
- Founded
- 2022
- Ownership
- Private
- Robot types
- Humanoids
- Total funding
- ~$1.9B raised
- Latest round
- Series C — $1B+ at $39B post-money (Sept 2025, led by Parkway VC)
Products
Robot reference
- Figure 02 Humanoid — Humanoid
- Figure 03 — Humanoid
Figure AI coverage
- Figure AI Melts F.02 Fleet: Schwarzenegger's Terminator Sendoff — Figure AI retired its F.02 humanoid fleet by training the robots to jump into a 75-ton electric arc furnace in Imatra, Finland. CEO Brett Adcock followed Arnold
- Robotics Week in Review: Sep 18–Sep 25, 2026 — This week showcased explosive humanoid deployments in entertainment, services, and homes alongside major AI training leaps. AGIBOT hit 300 robots at Chimelong w
- Figure AI Nscale Partnership Secures 100000 Vera Rubin GPUs — Figure AI announced a multi-year deal with Nscale on September 3, 2026, for up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs. The initial $3.5 billion commitment, potential
- Figure AI Helix 2.5 Delivers 56% Zero-Shot Success Across 30 Homes — Figure AI released Helix 2.5 on September 17, 2026. The Index-pretrained model enabled Figure 03 humanoids to tidy rooms, fold towels, and make beds in 30 unsee
- Robotics Week in Review: Sep 4–Sep 11, 2026 — Humanoid robotics surged forward this week with breakthroughs in control systems, record-breaking athletic performances, and major production scaling signals fr
- Robotics Week in Review: Aug 21–Aug 28, 2026 — Humanoid robots shattered performance records while AI foundation models and massive datasets accelerated real-world deployment. Funding rounds, record shipment
- Figure AI Index Dataset: 16M Videos Scale Helix Training — Figure AI launched its Index app on August 25, 2026, after collecting 16 million real-world human videos from 264,000 downloads in 108 countries.
- BMW Figure AI Humanoid Deployment Advances at Spartanburg in 2026 — BMW continues its Figure AI humanoid robot pilot at the Spartanburg, South Carolina plant. Figure 02 completed an 11-month logistics run moving over 90,000 part
Directory categories
- Humanoid Robot Companies — 32 companies
- US Robot Manufacturers — 28 companies
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