Figure AI News
Latest Figure AI news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. $1.8B raised. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Figure AI
Figure AI designs and builds general-purpose humanoid robots intended for commercial and industrial tasks such as logistics, manufacturing, and warehouse work, with a longer-term goal of household use. The company was founded in 2022 by Brett Adcock, who initially self-funded the venture, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Figure's hardware line has progressed from the original Figure 01 prototype (2022) through Figure 02 (2024) to Figure 03 (2025), a bipedal robot with improved dexterity and a design intended for mass manufacturing. Alongside the hardware, Figure develops Helix, a vision-language-action AI model that controls robot perception and whole-body manipulation; the Helix 2.5 update, released in September 2026, demonstrated zero-shot task generalization across 30 previously unseen homes.
Figure has raised capital across several rounds, including a $70 million Series A in 2023 led by Parkway Venture Capital, a $675 million Series B in February 2024 that valued the company at $2.6 billion, and a Series C that closed in September 2025 at over $1 billion, led by Parkway Venture Capital, valuing the company at $39 billion. Investors across these rounds have included Microsoft, NVIDIA, Intel Capital, Jeff Bezos's Bezos Expeditions, OpenAI Startup Fund, Brookfield Asset Management, Qualcomm Ventures, and Salesforce, among others. The company has previously partnered with BMW to pilot robots in automotive manufacturing.
Key facts
Products by Figure AI
- Figure 02 (Robot, 2024) — Second-generation humanoid robot with improved hands and onboard AI compute, deployed in industrial pilots including with BMW.
- Helix 2.5 (Robot, 2026) — Helix 2.5 is Figure AI's third-generation vision-language-action neural network for humanoid robots. In a September 2026 demonstration, a single frozen Helix 2....
- Figure 01 (Robot, 2022) — Figure's first general-purpose humanoid robot prototype, unveiled in 2023 for logistics and manufacturing tasks.
- Helix (AI Model, 2024) — Figure's AI model for humanoid perception and whole-body manipulation, with the Helix 2.5 update demonstrating zero-shot generalization across unseen homes in 2...
- Figure 03 (Robot, 2025) — Third-generation humanoid robot designed for mass manufacturing and expanded dexterity, unveiled in 2025.
Funding rounds
- Series C — $1B — 2025 — led by Parkway Venture Capital
- Series B — $675M — 2024
- Series A — $70M — 2023 — led by Parkway Venture Capital
- Seed — $100M — 2022 — led by Brett Adcock
Latest Figure AI news
- Figure's Humanoid Robots Walk Out of BotQ, But Autonomy and Output Stay Unconfirmed — A new campus video shows Figure 03 humanoids leaving Figure AI's BotQ factory, but the company again withheld robot counts, autonomy details and updat...
- Agility Robotics Clears Final Vote to Go Public on Nasdaq as AGLT This Week — Shareholders approved Agility Robotics' $2.5 billion merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI on November 2, clearing the way for Nasdaq trading under ti...
- IL Corp Puts Humanoid Robots on a Live Factory Line at RoboWorld 2026 — South Korea's IL Corp will show its ILBOT H2 and Y1 humanoids validated on a real injection molding line at RoboWorld 2026, as its humanoid unit start...
- AgiBot's 20,000th Robot Ships as It Unveils a New Metric for Robot Work — AgiBot, the world's top humanoid shipper in H1 2026, introduced a 'Worken' productivity formula and its AHA3 hardware platform at its Shanghai Innovat...
- Agility Robotics Nears Nasdaq Debut With $465M Raise, $300M Digit 5 Backlog — Agility Robotics expects to raise $465 million through its SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI, backed by more than $300 million in committed o...
- Meta Built a 106-Pound Humanoid Robot With China's Fourier in Just 3 Months — Meta and China's Fourier built a 106-pound humanoid prototype called Max in three months, running on Nvidia's Jetson Thor chip, as Meta tests a physic...
- Figure AI's Helix 2.5 Cleans 30 Strangers' Homes It Has Never Seen — A single frozen Helix 2.5 checkpoint hit 56% on tidying, towel-folding and bed-making across 30 unseen Bay Area homes, versus 9% without Index pretrai...
- Nscale Commits $3.5B AI Cloud Deal And Equity Stake To Figure — London-based Nscale is committing at least $3.5B — with room to scale past $6B — of AI cloud capacity to humanoid robotics company Figure, plus an und...
- NVIDIA Unleashes Cosmos World Foundation Models For Physical AI — NVIDIA on August 27, 2026 released the next generation of its Cosmos world foundation models, plus Cosmos Reason 2 and two Omniverse-Cosmos blueprints...
- Figure Hits 1,000th Figure 03 Off The BotQ Line In California — Figure AI has manufactured its 1,000th Figure 03 humanoid at the BotQ facility in California, sustaining approximately one robot per hour and cementin...
- Unitree Kicks Off $618M Shanghai IPO, Subscriptions Open August 10 — Chinese humanoid pioneer Unitree Robotics has published its STAR Market prospectus and issuance plan, with preliminary pricing on August 5 and offline...
- Figure Rolls 1,000th Figure 03 Humanoid Off Its BotQ Line — Figure CEO Brett Adcock announced on July 23, 2026 that the company's BotQ facility has manufactured its 1,000th Figure 03 humanoid robot, marked by a...
- Samsung Launches RX Humanoid Robotics Division Under CEO TM Roh — Samsung Electronics officially launched its Robotics eXperience (RX) division on July 21, backing it with the factory-tested Shallow-π VLA model and a...
- Ultra Robotics OP1 Hits 30% Order-Fill At Brooklyn 3PL Highline Commerce — Brooklyn 3PL Highline Commerce says Ultra Robotics' wall-powered Operator OP1 fleet now fills up to 30% of client e-commerce orders 24/7 — the first c...
- BMW Group deploys Figure 03 humanoid in Spartanburg logistics — After an 11-month Figure 02 pilot that supported 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles, BMW will deploy Figure.AI's Figure 03 humanoid for a parts-sequencing job at...
- Rhoda AI Exits Stealth With $450M Series A To Train Robots From Internet Video — Rhoda AI emerges with $450M at a $1.7B valuation and FutureVision, a video-predictive control platform that turns hundreds of millions of internet cli...
- OpenAI Spins Up OpenAI Robotics Division, Hiring For Physical-World Buildout — Sam Altman confirms an in-house robotics division aimed at building robots for data center, grid and factory construction — OpenAI's most explicit har...
- BMW Brings Hexagons AEON Humanoid Robot To Plant Leipzig — BMW Group has rolled humanoid robots into production in Germany for the first time, piloting Hexagon Robotics AEON at Plant Leipzig in EV battery asse...
- DARPA Wants Robots That Think Through Their Materials, Not Their Chips — DARPA opened an RFI for Materials for Physical Compute in Untethered Robotics, asking how sensing and computation could be embedded directly into a ro...
- Gatsby's Humanoid Robot Completes First US Consumer Home Cleaning — Gatsby's humanoid robot successfully completed the first autonomous consumer home cleaning in the United States, marking a major milestone in domestic...