Figure AI
Figure AI coverage — the Figure humanoid line, the Helix control model, and its commercial partnerships.
Coverage (25 articles)
- Robotics Week in Review: Oct 23–Oct 30, 2026 — Humanoid platforms advanced from synchronized demos and records to production lines and enterprise AI tools this week. Tesla, Figure, AgiBot, and Google DeepMin
- Figure 04 Design Lock Advances Custom Actuators — Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock announced during an October 22 all-hands that Figure 04 has reached full design lock. Parts are now shipping while the team character
- Robotics Week in Review: Oct 16–Oct 23, 2026 — This week highlighted rapid progress in embodied AI models, cross-embodiment world models, and hardware optimizations alongside China's policy push boosting Uni
- Figure 03 vs Tiangong Ultra: 2026 Capabilities and Costs — Figure 03 targets home and factory tasks with Helix AI showing 56% zero-shot success in unseen homes. Tiangong Ultra prioritizes speed and endurance after setti
- Robotics Week in Review: Oct 9–Oct 16, 2026 — AI training breakthroughs and record funding dominated robotics this week, as models like Gemini 4 Argon slashed humanoid learning times while NVIDIA and others
- NVIDIA Eyes $1B Figure AI Stake at $38B Valuation — NVIDIA is in talks to invest another $1 billion in Figure AI at a roughly $38 billion pre-money valuation. The move would expand NVIDIA's existing stake and sup
- Physical Intelligence Pi API Beta Speeds Figure 03 and Tiangong Fine-Tuning — Physical Intelligence opened beta access to its Pi API on October 13, letting developers fine-tune π0 and π0.5 models on managed compute and run inference throu
- 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
- Robotics Week in Review: Aug 10–Aug 17, 2026 — This week underscored the humanoid sector's pivot from prototypes to practical operations, with new repair networks, certification standards, and service models
- Figure 03 Humanoid Achieves Autonomous Ladder Climb in Helix AI Demo — Figure AI released video of its Figure 03 humanoid climbing a short ladder fully autonomously around August 1, 2026. CEO Brett Adcock shared the footage showing
- NEURA Robotics Lands Record $1.4B Series C for Cognitive Humanoids — Germany's NEURA Robotics secures up to $1.4 billion in Series C funding from Tether, NVIDIA, Amazon, Qualcomm and others to scale cognitive humanoid deployments
- Figure AI Ankle Patent Highlights Hardware Edge in Humanoid Mobility — Figure AI received the July 2026 Patent of the Month for US12649246, covering advanced ankle assemblies with independent actuators for precise foot pitch and ro
- Figure 02 at BMW Spartanburg: 30,000+ Vehicles, 1,250 Runtime Hours — Figure AI's Figure 02 humanoid completed an 11-month production pilot at BMW Spartanburg, handling 90,000+ sheet metal parts and contributing to over 30,000 BMW
- Pi0.7 and Helix: VLA Transformers Advance Zero-Shot Dexterous Manipulation — Physical Intelligence's π₀.7 (April 2026) and Figure AI's Helix (February 2025) represent state-of-the-art Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, achieving open-w
- 1X NEO Ready for Home 2026? New Yorker Exposes Humanoid Risks — The New Yorker’s June 2026 probe into 1X NEO reveals tendon actuators, teleoperation crutches, and fall risks that undermine 10k+ pre-orders at $20k. As rivals
- Figure AI 24x Ramp: BotQ Hits 1 Robot/Hour but MTBF Gap Looms — Figure AI scaled Figure 03 production 24x to one robot per hour at BotQ in 120 days, shipping over 350 units. The real 2026 test will be fleet uptime, repair ec
- China Humanoid Robot Deployment 2026: 10000 Units National Plan — China's MIIT and SASAC June 2026 directive mandates 10,000+ humanoid robots across 100+ scenarios by year-end, accelerating commercialization with Unitree and A
- Agility Robotics $2.5B SPAC to AGLT: Digit Ramps Amid Tesla Figure Rivalry — Agility Robotics' June 2026 SPAC merger with Churchill Capital XI at $2.5B valuation positions AGLT as the first U.S. pure-play humanoid public listing, acceler
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