Figure AI — R&D
Building Figure 01 and Figure 02 — general-purpose humanoids backed by Nvidia, Microsoft, and BMW. Figure 02 is deployed at BMW's Spartanburg factory, the first humanoid in a real automotive plant.
Notable achievements
Figure 02 at BMW factory (first humanoid in auto plant), $675M raised, OpenAI integration, Nvidia/Microsoft backing, 60+ second dexterous task demos.
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Preconditioner-Based Acceleration Method for Solving EMTP Linear Equations
Qi Lou, Yijun Xu, Yang Cao +2 more
2026
Physics-Guided Biomechanical Gait Adaptation for Humanoid Locomotion on Extreme Sloped Terrains
Xuanyu Chen, Mohan Liu, Dengchen Mei +6 more
2026
Digital dimension of plant science research: A bird's eye view of AI integration.
Mehrotra S, Mishra S, Srivastava V +2 more
Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology · 2026
HumanoidArena: Benchmarking Egocentric Hierarchical Whole-body Learning
Taowen Wang, Zikang Xie, Bin Yang +13 more
2026
The Open Motion Planning Library 2.0
Weihang Guo, Theodoros Tyrovouzis, Emiliano Flores +5 more
2026
Any2Any: Efficient Cross-Embodiment Transfer for Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking
Ming Yang, Tao Yu, Feng Li +1 more
2026