Figure's F.03 passes 13 days of treadmill walking
Brett Adcock says the humanoid started walking as a side project to shake out failures and has not stopped.
Figure's F.03 humanoid has now been walking on a treadmill for 13 straight days. Brett Adcock posted the update, putting the run at 13 days, 422 miles and 1.5 million steps. His words were short. "Quick update, we're still going strong."
we're still going strong at 13 days, 422 miles, and 1.5 million steps!
Four days earlier, Adcock gave the same run at 9 days, 348 miles and 1.2 million steps. So in the gap between the two posts the robot added roughly 74 miles and about 300,000 steps and never came off the belt.
Why Figure is doing it
Adcock says this was not a planned flagship test. He describes it as a side project to stress the robot and surface any failures, then see how long it can keep going. That is the useful part. Endurance runs are how you find the bearing, the cable, the joint or the thermal limit that only shows up after a few hundred thousand cycles, not the kind of thing a two minute demo video ever exposes.
What was actually shown
A humanoid on a treadmill. The numbers come from Figure, posted by Figure's CEO, and nobody outside the company has verified the mileage or the step count. There is no claim here that the robot is doing a job, carrying anything, handling varied terrain or recovering from anything unexpected. A treadmill is a controlled, repetitive surface, which is exactly what makes it a good hardware durability rig and exactly what makes it a weak proxy for the real world.
Still, continuous is the word that matters. Plenty of humanoid walking clips are cut, sped up or restarted off camera. A multi day run that keeps getting updated in public is a different kind of claim, because the counter only goes up if the hardware keeps surviving, and a failure would be visible by its absence.
Adcock has not said what the target is, or whether there is one. His framing was to let it run and find out. If the robot stops, the next post is the interesting one, because the reason it stopped is the whole point of the exercise.
Started as a side project to stress the robot for any failures. Let's see how long it can go
Sound like you were at the demo
One email a day. Under three minutes. The demos, the deployments and the part the press release left out.