Figure AI
Figure AI coverage — the Figure humanoid line, the Helix control model, and its commercial partnerships.
Coverage (7 articles)
- 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
- 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
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- Figure 02 Humanoid — Figure AI · Humanoid