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Figure AI Company Evidence and Lifecycle Record

Figure AI, Inc. is a humanoid robotics company founded by Brett Adcock. Figure's official company page identifies F.01, F.02, and F.03 as successive robot generations. Th

Aug 4, 20262 min readBy Dalton Anderson

Figure AI Company Evidence and Lifecycle Record

Verified identity

Figure AI, Inc. is a humanoid robotics company founded by Brett Adcock. Figure's official company page identifies F.01, F.02, and F.03 as successive robot generations. The founder's master plan identifies the long-term mission as developing general-purpose humanoids.

Product chronology

DateFirst-party recordEvidence boundary
May 2023Figure says F.01 took its first stepsCompany history, not an independent evaluation
March 2024Figure 01 language-and-manipulation demonstrationSelected prototype sequence
2024 to 2025F.02 development and BMW workCompany and partner records require exact date and task
October 2025Figure introduced F.03Vendor product announcement
January 2026Figure introduced Helix 02 full-body controlVendor technical demonstration and stated metrics
April 2026Figure reported scaled F.03 productionCompany production claim
June 2026Figure reported F.03 work at BMWCompany deployment report

Figure's current news archive reports later products, manufacturing, partnerships, demonstrations, and deployment. Those records make Figure 01 historical. They do not retroactively expand the evidence shown in the 2024 demo.

Contact and current routes

The public profile should route readers to Figure's official website and news archive. Privacy or legal contact details should be used only for the purpose named by Figure. Do not copy personal information or invent a general sales route.

Figure posted a July 2026 warning about unauthorized attempts to sell Figure stock. The company profile is not an investment page and must not imply that secondary-market access is authorized.

Claim boundary

Figure's production, autonomy, performance, safety, partnership, and deployment statements are first-party claims. The page may attribute them and explain what evidence they contain. Comparative, investment, procurement, workforce, safety, or household-readiness conclusions require independent and task-specific evidence.

Sources

Follow the evidence.

  1. NVIDIA Rubin announcementnvidianews.nvidia.com
  2. SIMA 2 technical reportstorage.googleapis.com
  3. NIOSH Center for Occupational Robotics Researchcdc.gov
  4. OSHA robotics overviewosha.gov
  5. NIST AI Resource Centerairc.nist.gov
  6. Google DeepMind SIMA 2 announcementdeepmind.google
  7. NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra announcementnvidianews.nvidia.com
  8. BMW Figure 02 trialpress.bmwgroup.com
  9. Spotify episode recordpodcasters.spotify.com
  10. Google DeepMind SIMA announcementdeepmind.google
  11. Figure news indexfigure.ai
  12. Figure 03 introductionfigure.ai
  13. NASA Systems Engineering Handbooknasa.gov
  14. Figure Helix 02figure.ai
  15. NVIDIA Blackwell launchinvestor.nvidia.com
  16. BMW Figure 03 projectpress.bmwgroup.com
  17. SIMA technical reportstorage.googleapis.com
  18. Figure company pagefigure.ai
Figure AI Company Evidence and Lifecycle Record