Figure AI
Robotics company developing Helix, a robot AI model for general-purpose humanoids. Every Robotics Weekly story on Figure AI, newest first. 9 stories since September 2026.
- Kat Scott says she has never seen a Figure robot at an event
The robotics engineer says the people she talks to think humanoids are a bubble, and that only two companies have real revenue.
- Adcock says Figure lifts well over 50 lbs
Brett Adcock disputes Chris Paxton's claim that Figure and Optimus are too weak for most human work, after a typo briefly made him agree.
- Adcock calls Figure's first tendon-driven hand a mistake
Figure's CEO says the company copied the human forearm, then backed out of it.
- Figure sends its old F.02 robots into molten steel
A retirement video for old hardware, a furnace in Finland, and a reply from the Terminator himself.
- Figure's 237 of 420 success rate turns into a fight
Tony Zhao says failing half the time is not useful work, and two other researchers say publishing the number at all deserves credit.
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- Visitor says hundreds of Figure 03s are walking around the lab
Humanoid Scott says the robots behind the reflective glass were numerous enough to photo-bomb a group photo.
- Figure posts 4 straight hours of Helix 2.5 in 30 homes
Brett Adcock introduced the unedited footage by warning it was really boring, and paired it with fresh upload numbers from Figure's Index app.
- Nieves streams 2,200 parcels an hour to Figure's 1,200
A rare humanoid versus incumbent comparison with a shared unit, parcels per hour on the same job.
- Figure commits $3.5B to Nscale for up to 100,000 GPUs
Brett Adcock says the compute goes to scaling Helix, and that Figure has entered the chapter of the humanoid race money can buy.
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