Figure AI Company Profile: Robots, Helix, and Status

Figure AI Company Profile

Figure AI, Inc. is a humanoid robotics company founded by Brett Adcock. It develops humanoid robot hardware, the Helix vision-language-action model family, data and training systems, and manufacturing infrastructure for industrial and household ambitions.

Figure's public record should be read as a product chronology. F.01 made early language-guided manipulation visible. F.02 moved into longer factory work. F.03 and Helix 02 now define the company's current public product and model story. A claim from one generation should not be assigned to another.

flowchart LR
    A["F.01 first generation"] --> B["F.02 workforce trials and deployment"]
    B --> C["F.03 current hardware generation"]
    D["OpenAI-linked 2024 demo"] --> A
    E["Helix models"] --> B
    E --> C
    C --> F["Current manufacturing and deployment claims"]

Company record

The identity and current routes were checked on July 28, 2026. Leadership, financing, product state, models, partnerships, production, deployments, and contact information can change.

What Figure is building

Figure's company page describes the company as developing a general-purpose humanoid. Its product history begins with F.01, moves through F.02, and presents F.03 as a later generation designed for the home and broader scale.

The founder's master plan frames the mission around humanoid robots that can operate in environments built for people. It identifies hardware, unit cost, safety, volume manufacturing, and artificial intelligence as linked development problems.

That framing is a company strategy, not proof that the final market or capability has been achieved. It is useful because it shows the system Figure believes it must build.

From F.01 to F.03

Figure says F.01 took its first steps in May 2023. The March 2024 demonstration discussed in E008 connected visual and language interpretation with a robot body. The system handed over an apple, moved objects, and responded to questions under prepared conditions.

F.02 later became the company's workforce generation. BMW's August 2024 trial report described a several-week Figure 02 test inserting sheet-metal parts into fixtures. At that date, BMW explicitly said no Figure robots remained at the plant and no definite deployment timetable had been established.

BMW's later 2026 Figure 03 announcement described F.03 work on a sequencing application after a later F.02 deployment. The date distinction prevents a short trial and a later operating record from being collapsed into one claim.

Figure introduced F.03 in October 2025. The company described changes to sensing, hands, battery design, wireless charging, manufacturability, and integration with Helix. Those are first-party product claims. Deployment and comparative conclusions still need the exact task and field record.

Helix is the model layer

Figure describes Helix as its vision-language-action system for perception, reasoning, and control. In January 2026, the company introduced Helix 02 as a full-body system that combines semantic reasoning, visuomotor control, and a learned whole-body controller.

The Helix 02 announcement includes architecture descriptions, training details, and selected physical demonstrations. Figure says one controller was trained across more than 200,000 parallel simulated environments and reports multi-minute household tasks.

Those records are more informative than a short video alone, but they remain company-produced evidence. A buyer or operator still needs task-specific success, failure, intervention, safety, maintenance, privacy, and support evidence.

Manufacturing is part of the product claim

Humanoid robotics requires more than a prototype. Repeatable parts, assembly, testing, repair, software configuration, fleet monitoring, and supply become part of the operating system.

Figure's April 2026 production update reported more than 350 F.03 units and a higher production rate at its BotQ facility. That is a dated first-party manufacturing claim. It does not by itself establish field reliability, unit economics, delivery availability, or service capacity.

The correct editorial treatment is attribution. State what Figure reported, preserve the date and scope, and do not convert production throughput into product readiness.

How to evaluate partnership and deployment claims

A partnership announcement may establish that two organizations agreed to explore or perform defined work. A trial may establish operation for a period in a specific environment. A deployment record should add duration, task volume, failure, intervention, safety controls, maintenance, staffing, and decision ownership.

BMW's current public record is especially useful because it provides a partner source. It also shows how the state changed over time. The evidence should remain attached to F.02 or F.03, the named plant, the named task, and the stated period.

Do not infer general factory, home, healthcare, or public-space readiness from one industrial application.

Privacy and human impact

Humanoid robots can carry cameras, microphones, force sensors, location systems, and logs. Figure's privacy policy says its services may process sensory data such as photos, videos, or recordings of a person or environment.

That policy does not specify every deployment. It establishes why a deployment needs its own data inventory, retention, access, security, notice, and incident response.

Workforce claims also require more than a company mission statement. Task design, staffing, safety, worker input, training, job quality, and collective or legal rights vary by workplace.

Official routes and investment boundary

Use Figure's official website and news archive for current product and company announcements. Use the purpose-specific privacy and legal routes shown on Figure's own pages.

Figure posted a July 2026 warning about unauthorized stock sales. This company profile does not recommend an investment, verify a secondary offering, or provide a route to purchase private shares.

Venture Step context

E008 records the F.01 demonstration beside Blackwell and SIMA. E010 and E068 extend the robotics model and simulation thread. E025 supplies an operating-domain lens. E045 covers tactile sensing, and E117 covers actuator and force evidence.

Read [[Figure 01 Product Profile]] for the historical prototype and [[Robotics Needs Evidence Consent and Safeguards]] for a deployment-readiness framework.

This profile was developed with AI assistance from the preserved E008 transcript and the linked Figure and BMW records. Figure sources establish Figure's own statements. BMW sources establish BMW's dated partner account. Company, technical, deployment, safety, privacy, accessibility, investment, editorial, and founder review remain required. Publication is unauthorized.