Figure AI

Figure AI is a robotics company developing general-purpose humanoid robots designed to perform a wide range of physical tasks in commercial and industrial settings. Founded in 2022 by Brett Adcock, the company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Figure AI has attracted significant investment from major technology companies and investors, including a notable partnership with OpenAI to integrate advanced language models and reasoning capabilities into its humanoid platform. The company's primary product is Figure 02, a humanoid robot standing approximately five feet six inches tall and designed for bipedal locomotion, dexterous manipulation, and autonomous task execution. Figure 02 features human-like hands with individual finger articulation, enabling it to grasp, carry, and manipulate a wide variety of objects encountered in real-world work environments. The robot uses a combination of onboard cameras, sensors, and AI models for perception, navigation, and task planning. Through its integration with OpenAI's models, the Figure humanoid can understand and respond to natural language instructions, reason about its environment, and execute multi-step tasks without explicit programming for each action sequence. Figure AI has focused its initial commercial deployment on manufacturing and logistics applications, partnering with BMW to deploy humanoid robots in automotive manufacturing facilities. In these settings, the robots perform tasks such as part handling, bin picking, insertion operations, and material transport alongside human workers. The company's long-term vision is to create a general-purpose humanoid workforce capable of performing any physical task that a human can do, addressing labor shortages across industries including manufacturing, warehousing, retail, and elder care. Figure AI operates on an enterprise model with commercial deployments negotiated directly with customers.