Figure AI
Figure AI — humanoid robot maker founded 2022 by Brett Adcock (ex-Archer Aviation). Figure 02 (Aug 2024) + Helix VLA model (Feb 2025) for full-body / hand control. Raised $675M Series B Feb-2024 (Microsoft / OpenAI / Bezos / Intel; $2.6B val); reported new round at $39.5B val Q2 2025. Partnered with BMW for manufacturing pilots.
At a glance
- Type
- Humanoid robot maker (Figure 01 / Figure 02 / Helix VLA model)
- Tier
- T1
- Created
- 2022 (founded)
- Latest release
- Helix VLA (Feb 2025); Figure 03 in development
- License
- not applicable — not OSS
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo
- Pricing
- not applicable — wrong section
- Funding
- $675M Series B Feb-2024 (Microsoft, OpenAI, Bezos, NVIDIA, Intel, LG Innotek; $2.6B val); reported $39.5B val funding Q2 2025
Taxonomy
- storage
- weight
- retrieval
- parametric-recall
- persistence
- parametric-permanent
- update
- agent-controlled
- unit
- trajectory
- governance
- opaque
- conflict
- training-time
When to use
Optimised for: End-to-end humanoid VLA — full-body + dexterous hand control
Anti-fit: Closed humanoid platform — no developer API; alpha-customer-only
Pros & cons
Pros
Best-funded humanoid maker; Helix VLA is one of the highest-profile robotics-FM releases of 2025; BMW pilot.
Cons
Closed platform / weights; humanoid-only; production scale still small; valuation aggressive.
Claims & capabilities
$675M Series B Feb-2024; Helix VLA (Feb 2025) end-to-end vision-language-action; BMW partnership
Technical surface
- API surface
- No public API; closed humanoid platform
- Backend storage
- Internal Figure cloud
- Deployment
- Direct customer deployment (humanoid robot)
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- Per-customer fleet
- MCP
- not applicable — wrong section
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
Compare Figure AI with…
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References (2)
- Azure Machine Learning depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: BMW manufacturing; OpenAI partnership (ended Feb 2025); Microsoft Azure
- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: BMW manufacturing; OpenAI partnership (ended Feb 2025); Microsoft Azure