Figure AI

Figure launches Helix 02 in January to unify walking, manipulation, and balance, then shows the system autonomously tidying a living room in March as it expands from kitchen demos to broader home tasks.

Figure announces that BotQ has gone from one Figure 03 per day to one per hour — a 24x throughput improvement in under 120 days — with 350+ third-generation humanoids produced, more than 9,000 actuators across 10+ variants, 500+ battery packs shipped at 99.3% first-pass yield, and 80%+ end-of-line first-pass yield. CEO Brett Adcock says the plant is now scaling toward 55 robots per week.

On May 13, 2026, Figure live-streams four Figure 03 humanoids ('Bob,' 'Frank,' 'Gary,' and later 'Rose') running a fully autonomous 8-hour package-sorting shift powered by Helix 02 — detecting barcodes, picking packages, and orienting them onto a conveyor at roughly human throughput. Figure then escalates the demo through ~40-hour and 81-hour runs to a 200-hour continuous autonomous operation in late May 2026 — three Figure 03 robots sorting roughly 250,000 packages (~249,560) with zero hardware failures, using autonomous battery swap to foot-based wireless charging docks between stints.

On May 26, 2026, Catalyst Brands (parent of JCPenney, Aéropostale, and Brooks Brothers) signs a commercial agreement to deploy Figure 03 fleets in its Reno, Nevada distribution center, starting on the Joey Pouch sorting/packing system. The deal is one of the first public commercial humanoid agreements in U.S. retail logistics.

Figure adds a perception-conditioned whole-body control upgrade to its low-level System 0 controller that lets Figure 03 climb stairs and cross ramps and uneven terrain using only onboard stereo cameras — no task-specific programming, motion capture, or operator intervention. RGB imagery is fused into a real-time 3D representation of the ground and combined with the robot's proprioceptive state; the locomotion policy is trained end-to-end with reinforcement learning across thousands of randomized simulated terrains and transfers zero-shot to the real robot across varied lighting, a key step toward multi-level factory, warehouse, and home environments.

On June 25, 2026, BMW put Figure's third-generation Figure 03 humanoid to work on complex logistics sequencing (picking parts from unsorted containers into just-in-sequence trolleys) in Hall 52 at Plant Spartanburg — a return to the customer after the earlier Figure 02 pilot. That 11-month body-shop pilot supported production of 30,000+ BMW X3 vehicles and loaded 90,000+ sheet-metal parts across roughly 1,250 runtime hours at >99% placement accuracy. Figure 03 adds wireless charging, tactile hands, palm cameras and speech-to-speech audio, and Figure said it is beginning fleet-wide retirement of the Figure 02.

On June 20, 2026, CEO Brett Adcock announces that deployed Figure robots (roughly 740–750) now outnumber the company's human staff (about 660, of whom only ~314 are salaried with the rest hourly or contract) for the first time — a milestone he frames as evidence of Figure's manufacturing and deployment ramp as BotQ scales Figure 03 output and commercial fleets grow.

Figure exceeds $1B in Series C funding at a $39B post-money valuation to accelerate humanoid production, AI development, and commercial scale-up.

Figure introduces Figure 03, a lower-cost third-generation platform redesigned for Helix, home environments, and high-volume manufacturing through BotQ.

Figure reports an 11-month Figure 02 deployment at BMW Spartanburg that ran daily 10-hour shifts, loaded 90,000+ parts, and contributed to 30,000+ X3 vehicles before the fleet's retirement.

Announces commercial partnership with BMW Manufacturing in January and raises $675M Series B at a $2.6B valuation in February with investors including Microsoft, OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Jeff Bezos.

Figure unveils Figure 02, a ground-up redesign for workforce use with six onboard RGB cameras, fourth-generation hands, and 3x more onboard compute than Figure 01.

Figure exits stealth mode in January. By May, Figure 01 achieves dynamic bipedal walking — less than one year from founding. Raises $70M Series A led by Parkway Venture Capital.

Brett Adcock founds Figure AI and self-funds a $100M seed round to develop general-purpose humanoid robots.