Facts

• Segment: Humanoid
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2022
• Website: https://www.figure.ai

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Supply chain relationships
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Record / Articles
• Sources

Summary

Figure AI builds humanoid robots for industrial and general-purpose work in human-designed environments. Its Figure 02 robot has been deployed at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, where it handled production-line material tasks in a real automotive manufacturing setting.

Market context

Figure AI reached early commercial pilot deployments (e. g. , BMW), focusing on rapid adoption and speech-to-action reasoning integrated with its autonomy/control stack. Figure 03 Figure develops the Figure 01, Figure 02 and Figure 03 humanoid platforms and the Helix autonomy stack, combining bipedal locomotion, manipulation, perception, speech-to-action reasoning, and workplace deployment pilots.

Products

• Figure 03 - Figure Series
• Helix - Helix

Facts

• Website: https://www.figure.ai
• HQ: Sunnyvale, United States
• Founded: 2022
• Segment: Humanoid
• Funding total: $1.85B
• Known funding rounds: 4
• Latest funding date: 2026-02-14

Funding

• 2026-02-14 - Series C - Figure funding round - source: figure.ai
• 2025-09-16 - Series C - $1B - Figure exceeds $1B in Series C funding at $39B post-money valuation - source: figure.ai
• 2024-02-29 - Series B - $675M - Figure raises $675M at $2.6B valuation and signs collaboration agreement with OpenAI - source: venturebeat.com
• 2023-05-24 - Series A - $70M - Figure announces $70M Series A to support commercialization of Figure 01 humanoid robot - source: prnewswire.com

Investors

• Parkway Venture Capital - Lead - Vc - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-05-24 - latest 2025-09-16
• Align Ventures - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-02-29 - latest 2025-09-16
• Intel Capital - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - strategic/corporate - first seen 2024-02-29 - latest 2025-09-16
• NVIDIA - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-02-29 - latest 2025-09-16
• Tamarack Global - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-05-24 - latest 2025-09-16
• Brookfield Asset Management - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-09-16
• LG Technology Ventures - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2025-09-16
• Macquarie Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-09-16
• Qualcomm Ventures - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2025-09-16
• Salesforce - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-09-16
• T-Mobile Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-09-16
• ARK Invest - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-02-29
• Jeff Bezos - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-02-29
• Microsoft - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2024-02-29
• OpenAI Startup Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-02-29
• Aliya Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-05-24
• Bold Capital Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-05-24
• Brett Adcock - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-05-24
• FJ Labs - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-05-24
• Till Reuter (KUKA Robotics CEO) - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-05-24

General-purpose humanoid robot company

Figure AI develops Figure 03 humanoid robots and Helix AI software for industrial, logistics and eventually home task execution.

• Target environment: Warehouses, factories, logistics facilities, robot training areas, home scenarios and human-scale workspaces.
• Deployment model: Vertically integrated humanoid robot development, AI software, manufacturing scale-up and enterprise deployment partnerships.
• Customer context: Logistics operators, manufacturers, enterprise partners and future users of general-purpose humanoid labour.
• Workflow context: Package handling, factory assistance, mobile manipulation, robot learning, fleet production and human-scale task execution.
• Commercial maturity: Scaling humanoid company with BotQ production ramp activity and public autonomous package-sorting demonstrations.
• Market position: High-profile humanoid builder pursuing scaled production of general-purpose robots.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on autonomy reliability, task breadth, safety, fleet uptime, manufacturing cost, customer deployments and proof beyond controlled tasks.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes humanoid robot builders, general-purpose robot labour, warehouse humanoids and embodied AI systems.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-05-26 - Partnership - Figure signs Catalyst Brands agreement for humanoid logistics deployment - Figure announced an agreement with Catalyst Brands to deploy Figure humanoids into its distribution and logistics net…
• 2026-05-08 - Demonstration - Figure demonstrates Helix 02 bedroom tidy task with humanoid robot - Figure published an official Helix 02 bedroom-tidy demo showing its humanoid system performing a household soft-object ma…
• 2026-04-16 - Capability - Figure introduces Vulcan controller enabling actuator fault tolerance in Figure 03 - Brett Adcock introduced Vulcan as a new AI robot controller.
• 2026-03-25 - Demonstration - Melania Trump presents Figure 03 humanoid robot at White House education summit - • First Lady Melania Trump hosted the final day of the 'Fostering the Future Together' summit at the White H…
• 2026-03-09 - Demonstration - Figure AI's Helix 02 Robot Demonstrates Autonomous Home Cleanup - • Figure AI's Helix 02 humanoid robot autonomously performed a comprehensive living room cleanup.
• 2026-02-22 - Deployment - Figure AI Deploys Humanoid Robots at New Sunnyvale Headquarters - Figure AI's Sunnyvale headquarters now operates a fleet of seven Figure 03 robots autonomously.
• 2026-02-22 - Demonstration - Figure demonstrates humanoids at new Sunnyvale headquarters - Figure demonstrated humanoid systems at its new Sunnyvale headquarters.
• 2026-02-14 - Funding - Figure funding round - Figure raised over $1B in Series C funding, achieving a $39B post-money valuation.
• 2026-01-27 - Capability - Figure introduces Helix 02 for full-body humanoid autonomy - Helix 02 extends Figure's autonomy stack for full-body robot control.
• 2025-12-04 - Demonstration - Figure showcases impressive gait of Figure 03 humanoid robot - Third-generation platform, following earlier models.
• 2025-11-21 - Regulatory - Figure AI Sued by Former Safety Head Over Robot Injury Risks - Former Head of Product Safety, Robert Gruendel, filed a lawsuit alleging wrongful termination after raising safety concerns about…
• 2025-11-19 - Deployment - Figure 02 contributes to 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles at Plant Spartanburg - Figure reported an 11-month Figure 02 deployment at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg.
• 2025-10-09 - Product Launch - Figure AI Unveils Figure 03 Humanoid Robot for Home and Commercial Use - Figure 03 features a redesigned sensory suite and hand system optimized for Helix, Figure's proprietary vision-langu…
• 2025-09-17 - Partnership - Figure partners with Brookfield on humanoid data, infrastructure and deployment pathways - Figure announced a strategic partnership with Brookfield, which it described as a major real-world en…
• 2025-09-16 - Funding - Figure exceeds $1B in Series C funding at $39B post-money valuation - Figure announced over $1B in Series C financing.
• 2025-08-13 - Production Milestone - Figure AI Produces 100th F.03 Battery Pack at BotQ Facility - Figure AI has manufactured its 100th F.03 battery pack at the BotQ facility.
• 2025-08-12 - Research Publication - Figure AI shows Helix folding laundry as a deformable-object manipulation benchmark - Figure showed the same Helix model extending from logistics package reorientation into autonomous…
• 2025-07-17 - Capability - Figure introduces F.03 battery system for next-generation humanoid platform - Figure presented its F.03 battery architecture as a core technology step for its next-generation humanoid platform.
• 2025-06-07 - Research Publication - Figure AI scales Helix logistics performance toward human-level throughput - Figure reported that Helix expanded from rigid boxes to poly bags and padded envelopes while cutting avera…
• 2025-04-28 - Market Signal - Figure AI received 53,609 job applications this year, a ~5x increase YoY - • Figure AI received 53,609 job applications this year, a nearly fivefold increase compared to the previous year's…
• 2025-03-25 - Demonstration - Figure Demonstrates Humanoid Robot Walking Naturally Using Reinforcement Learning - Figure introduced an end-to-end neural network trained with reinforcement learning for humanoid locomotion.
• 2025-03-17 - Facility Opening - Figure AI relocates headquarters to San Jose, CA - • Figure AI moved its headquarters from Sunnyvale to a 98,700-square-foot facility at 3960 North First Street in San Jose.
• 2025-03-15 - Facility Opening - Figure introduces BotQ, a high-volume robot manufacturing facility - Figure introduced BotQ as dedicated manufacturing infrastructure for humanoid production.
• 2025-02-26 - Research Publication - Figure AI details Helix logistics policy for real-world package manipulation - Figure published a technical report on using Helix for package manipulation and triaging in a real-world…

Operations / Deployments

• 2025-10-09 - Product Launch - Figure AI Unveils Figure 03 Humanoid Robot for Home and Commercial Use - Figure 03 features a redesigned sensory suite and hand system optimized for Helix, Figure's proprietary vision-langu…
• 2025-06-07 - Research Publication - Figure AI scales Helix logistics performance toward human-level throughput - Figure reported that Helix expanded from rigid boxes to poly bags and padded envelopes while cutting avera…
• 2025-01-30 - Market Signal - Figure AI Signs Second Major Commercial Customer - Figure AI has signed a second commercial customer, described as 'one of the biggest U.S. companies.'
• 2024-12-16 - Deployment - Figure AI Deploys F.02 Humanoid Robots to Commercial Customer - Figure AI delivered its F.02 humanoid robots to a commercial client, marking the company's transition to a revenue-generating ent…
• 2024-01-18 - Partnership - Figure signs commercial agreement with BMW for robot deployment - Figure and BMW entered a commercial agreement for humanoid deployment in manufacturing.

Team

• Brett Adcock - Founder & CEO
• Jerry Pratt - Chief Technology Officer

Supply chain relationships

• Technology partner - Figure said it signed a collaboration agreement with OpenAI to develop next-generation AI models for humanoid robots as part of its Series B announcement.

Relationships

• Deployment customer - Figure and Catalyst Brands announced an agreement to deploy Figure humanoids into Catalyst's distribution and logistics network.
• Deployment and infrastructure partner - Figure and Brookfield announced a strategic partnership covering humanoid training data, AI infrastructure and future deployment opportunities across Brookfield environments.
• Investor - Figure said Brookfield participated in its financing alongside the operating partnership announced for humanoid scale-up.
• bmw - Deployment partner - Figure announced commercial humanoid deployment with BMW Manufacturing at Plant Spartanburg, with later operational reporting from the assembly line.
• bmw - deployment - Figure 02 robots ran on BMW Group Plant Spartanburg assembly line and loaded more than 90,000 parts.

Context tags

• Bipedal locomotion - Capability - Figure 02/03 models demonstrate bipedal mobility
• Dexterous manipulation - Capability - Public demos show object manipulation and two-handed coordination
• Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - BMW pilot and disclosed customer deployments
• Humanoid industrial builder - Peer Group - Core peer group: industrial humanoid builder with Figure 02/03 disclosed
• Industrial task execution - Workflow - Positioned for industrial manufacturing and logistics task execution
• Warehouse material handling - Workflow - Public demos show warehouse logistics and material movement
• Vision-language-action control - Capability - Helix VLA model disclosed for Figure robot control
• Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Builds complete humanoid robotic systems
• Warehouses - Customer Environment - Target deployment environments include warehouse logistics
• Factories - Customer Environment - Target deployment environments include manufacturing

Customers and deployments

• Named Commercial Site - 1 named commercial deployment - 2026-05-26 - Catalyst Brands - retail distribution and logistics - Figure announced a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands to deploy humanoids into Catalyst's…
• Actuators Produced - over 9,000 actuators - 2026-04-29 - humanoid manufacturing - Figure reported more than 9,000 actuators produced across more than 10 distinct SKUs during the Figure 03 BotQ ramp. - source posture: Co…
• End Of Line First Pass Yield - over 80% first-pass yield - 2026-04-29 - humanoid manufacturing - Figure reported over 80% end-of-line first-pass yield during the Figure 03 BotQ ramp. - source posture: Company Disclosed
• Battery Line First Pass Yield - 99.3% first-pass yield - 2026-04-29 - humanoid manufacturing - Figure reported a 99.3% first-pass yield on its Figure 03 battery line. - source posture: Company Disclosed
• Reported Production Rate Robots Per Hour - 1 robot/hour - 2026-04-29 - BotQ - humanoid robot manufacturing - Figure says BotQ increased Figure 03 production from one robot per day to one robot per hour, a 24x throughput…
• Reported Cumulative Delivered Robots - over 350 robots delivered - 2026-04-29 - BotQ - humanoid robot manufacturing - Figure says BotQ delivered over 350 Figure 03 humanoid robots by April 29, 2026. The number is a comp…
• Battery Packs Shipped - over 500 battery packs - 2026-04-29 - humanoid manufacturing - Figure reported that its Figure 03 battery line shipped more than 500 battery packs during the BotQ ramp. - source posture: Company…
• Named Commercial Site - 1 named commercial deployment - 2026-01-12 - BMW Group - automotive manufacturing - Figure reported results from an 11-month Figure 02 deployment at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, saying the robots…
• Estimated 2025 Humanoid Shipments - about 150 robots shipped in 2025 - 2026-01-09 - Figure AI appears in Omdia/Rest of World 2025 humanoid shipment estimates at about 150 robots shipped in 2025. This row is a market-est…
• Reported Parts Loaded - 90,000+ parts loaded - 2025-11-19 - BMW Group - automotive manufacturing - Figure says its Figure 02 deployment at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg ran on every working day, loaded more than 90,000 pa…
• Parts Loaded - more than 90,000 parts - 2025-11-19 - BMW Group Plant Spartanburg - automotive assembly line - Figure said Figure 02 robots ran on an active BMW assembly line at Plant Spartanburg, loading more than 90,00…
• Component Output - 100 battery packs - 2025-10-08 - internal production - humanoid battery-pack production - Figure said it had manufactured 100 Figure 03 battery packs as of August 13, a component-production milestone…
• Planned Annual Capacity Robots - up to 12,000 robots/year - 2025-03-15 - BotQ - humanoid robot manufacturing - Figure says BotQ is a high-volume manufacturing facility whose first-generation line is capable of manufactu…
• Deployment Event - 1 source-backed deployment event - 2024-08-06 - Figure operates humanoid robots on BMW X3 production line for 5 months - source posture: Third Party Reported

Record / Articles

• 2026-05-01 - Figure ramps Figure 03 production at BotQ to one robot per hour - Figure AI has achieved a 24x throughput improvement in under 120 days at its California manufacturing facility, delivering over 350 Figure 0…
• 2026-04-18 - This Week in Humanoid Robotics - Funding, deployments, and capability signals across the last 7 days. - Korthos: /research/this-week-in-humanoid-robotics
• 2025-11-21 - Figure AI is turning BMW humanoid hours into Figure 03 design data - Figure AI reported an 11-month BMW Spartanburg deployment with 1,250+ operating hours and 90,000+ parts loaded, turning humanoid factory…
• 2025-09-16 - Figure is turning Series C capital into a physical-AI scale race - A September 16, 2025 Series C put Figure above $1 billion in committed capital at a $39 billion valuation after BMW runtime, Helix work, an…