# Figure AI

Figure AI, Inc. is a United States-based robotics company specializing in the development of AI-powered humanoid robots. It was founded in 2022, by Brett Adcock, the founder of Archer Aviation and Vettery. Figure AI's team is composed of experts from robotics, artificial intelligence, sensing, perception, and navigation, blending experiences from notable companies like Boston Dynamics and Tesla.

## History

In 2022, the company introduced its prototype, Figure 01, a bipedal robot designed for manual labor, initially targeting the logistics and warehousing 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 BMW 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 Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel, and the startup-funding divisions of Amazon and OpenAI. The funding valued the company at $2.6 billion. It also announced a partnership with OpenAI. 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. In February it announced Helix, the next generation of its humanoid robot.
On March 15 2025, Figure AI Introduces BOTQ - A High Volume Manufacturing Facility for humanoid Robots. According to Figure AI, BOTQ is a manufacturing line aiming to produce 12,000 humanoids per year.

## Products
### Figure 02

On August 6, 2024, Figure AI unveiled the next generation of its humanoid robot, named Figure 02. Described by the company as the next step deploying humanoids for industrial use. Figure 02 features a sleeker and slimmer design compared to its predecessor, with integrated cabling in its limbs. The battery capacity has increased by 50% over the previous generation. Additionally, the robot is equipped with 6 RGB cameras paired with an onboard vision language model. Powered by NVIDIA RTX GPU-based modules, its inference 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 with Open AI, to facilitate conversational capabilities with humans. The redesigned five-fingred robotic hands have 16 degrees of freedom (DoF) and the ability to carry objects up to 25kg. Figure 02 robots are currently deployed to a BMW plant in South Carolina for testing and to collect training data for AI models.

### 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 collaborative 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.