Figure AI, Inc. is an American robotics company specializing in the development of AI-powered

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s. It was founded in 2022, by

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, the founder of

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and

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History

In 2022, the company introduced its prototype, Figure 01, a

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designed for manual labor, initially targeting the

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and

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sectors. In May 2023, the company raised $70 million from investors led by Parkway Venture Capital. On January 18, 2024, Figure announced a partnership with

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to deploy humanoid robots in automotive manufacturing facilities. In February 2024, Figure AI secured $675 million in venture capital funding from a consortium that includes

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, and the startup-funding divisions of

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and OpenAI. The funding valued the company at $2.6 billion. It also announced a partnership with

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. The collaboration includes OpenAI building specialized AI models for Figure's humanoid robots, allowing them to accelerate Figure's development timeline by enabling its robots to "process and reason from language". In 2025 Figure ended its collaboration with OpenAI, stating that large language models are "getting smarter yet more commoditized". In February, Figure AI announced Helix, the next generation of its humanoid robot. On March 15, 2025, Figure AI introduced BotQ, a manufacturing facility aiming to produce 12,000 humanoids per year. Figure AI plans to progressively use its own humanoid robots to assist in building additional robots.

Products

Figure 02

On August 6, 2024, Figure AI introduced Figure 02, a new version of its humanoid robot. The company described it as the next step toward deploying humanoids for industrial use. Figure 02 features integrated cabling in its limbs and a battery integrated into the torso. It is equipped with 6

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cameras, paired with an onboard vision language model. Powered by

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RTX GPU-based modules, its

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capabilities provide 3x of the computing power of the previous model. It is also equipped with microphones and speakers combined with a custom AI model, developed in partnership with OpenAI to facilitate conversational capabilities with humans. The redesigned five-fingered robotic hands have 16

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and the ability to carry objects up to 25kg. Figure 02 robots have been tested at a

plant in

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Helix

Helix is an evolved version of Figure 02 that comes with 35 degrees of freedom, including human-like wrists, hands, and fingers. It features Helix VLA, a generalist vision-language-action neural network that can control two robots at once. The system can observe its surroundings, respond to natural language commands, interact with the real world without the extended training required by prior generations. Helix can control two robots simultaneously and direct them to collaborate with each other. Each robot has two GPUs. System 2 handles high-level planning at 7-9 Hz (operations per second), while System 1 provides low-level control at 200 Hz. System 2 plans tasks, while System 1 carries them out. Figure claims that its robots can pick up nearly any small household object, even those it hasn't seen before.

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