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Figure 02
Figure Humanoid SystemsFigure 02 is a humanoid robot developed by Figure AI (San Jose, CA, founded 2022 by Brett Adcock), now superseded by Figure 03. The system uses the Helix VLA (vision-language-action) neural network for onboard autonomous operation and has been commercially deployed in logistics/distribution settings. Figure AI has raised over $1.9B total (including a $1B+ Series C at a $39B valuation) and plans to ship 100,000 humanoids over four years. Independent observers have raised credible concerns about whether some demos were fully autonomous or involved teleoperation, though a 9+ day public livestream and reported 110+ hour autonomous run provide some corroborating evidence for genuine autonomous capability; the autonomy claims remain partially contested.
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- hardware_dimensions
- Figure 02: ~168 cm (5'6"), ~70 kg. Figure 03: ~173 cm (5'8"), ~61 kg
- hardware_payload
- 20–25 kg (sources vary: 20 kg per humanoid.guide and sacra; 25 kg per robozaps)
- hardware_battery
- Figure 02: 2.25 kWh torso-integrated lithium-ion, 5-hour runtime, 1.5-hour rapid charge. Figure 03: 2.3 kWh swappable pack
- hardware_walking_speed
- 1.2 m/s
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Evidence-graded claims from the Figure Humanoid Systems deep report
Figure 02 has been commercially deployed at BMW Manufacturing in Spartanburg, South Carolina — the company's first real-world commercial deployment.
Multiple independent community posts and a Reddit thread confirm Figure 02 robots operating at BMW Spartanburg for package handling tasks over approximately 5 months, corroborated by news coverage — though the scope (~200 hours total) remains narrow [12][13][15].
from Figure Humanoid Systems deep report →Figure AI has raised over $1.75B in total funding, reaching a $39B post-money valuation in September 2025 — approximately 15x its February 2024 Series B valuation of $2.6B.
The $39B Series C valuation is confirmed by Figure AI's official announcement and corroborated by LinkedIn and news coverage [7][8][10]; however, the valuation reflects investor sentiment and is not independently validated against revenue, unit economics, or deployment scale.
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Figure AI's proprietary Helix VLA model replaced the OpenAI partnership and now powers all Figure robot AI capabilities in-house.
Official sources and commerce coverage confirm the OpenAI partnership ended February 2025 and that Helix is now the in-house system [1][5], but no independent third-party benchmark or technical audit verifies Helix's specific capabilities or performance relative to the prior OpenAI-based system.
from Figure Humanoid Systems deep report →Figure AI is targeting limited home deployments by late 2026 with Figure 03, a robot explicitly designed for mass manufacturing and home use.
Commerce sources and the Figure 03 unveil (October 2025) support the home-use design intent [4][6], but the late-2026 home deployment timeline comes from a commerce source only and has not been independently confirmed; given the current Supervised-Autonomous performance level, the timeline is speculative.
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Figure 02 robots operate autonomously at BMW's Spartanburg plant, performing commercial automotive production tasks without human teleoperation.
Community sources confirm only ~200 hours of package handling over 5 months (~1.6 hrs/day), implying heavily supervised, narrow-scope operation rather than broad autonomous production work; a documented fall during a stand-up policy test further undermines full-autonomy claims [13][15][16].
from Figure Humanoid Systems deep report →Figure's Helix VLA AI system enables robots to navigate unpredictable home environments and execute household tasks (laundry folding, dishwasher loading) fully autonomously.
Robot Report confirms laundry folding and dishwasher loading as controlled demos [10], but no independent source verifies unsupervised autonomous household operation; community skeptics note demos do not reflect reliable real-world deployment capability [14][17].
from Figure Humanoid Systems deep report →Figure AI's BMW deployment achieved ~200 hours of robot operation over ~5 months, which the company publicly celebrated as a milestone.
Community sources confirm the 200-hour figure but independently calculate this as only ~8 days of actual work (~1.6 hrs/day), with Reddit commenters widely characterizing the celebration of this metric as evidence of underwhelming real-world scale rather than a genuine production milestone [15].
from Figure Humanoid Systems deep report →CEO Brett Adcock claims the general robotics problem is solvable within 18–24 months.
This forward-looking claim originates solely from a commerce source citing the CEO [5]; it is directly contradicted by independent community analysis highlighting the fundamental difficulty of the humanoid robotics market and Figure's own limited real-world deployment footprint [17][14].
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