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. Figure 03 (introduced 2025-10-09) is now marketed as a general-purpose home-help humanoid running Helix; Figure 02 was decommissioned (2026-09-30).
Active · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 34 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T1
- Created
- 2022 (founded) vendor fix
- Latest release
- Helix 2.5 (2026-09-17) vendor fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- Funding
- $675M Series B Feb-2024 ($2.6B val); Series C over $1B committed at $39B post-money, Sep-2025 (Parkway Venture Capital led) vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- large-models repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
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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- Physical Intelligence (π) T1
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- 1X Technologies T2
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- Agility Robotics T2
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- Apptronik T2
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- Collaborative Robotics T3
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Sources (33 cited facts, 0 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Humanoid robot maker (Figure 01 / Figure 02 / Helix VLA model) vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Figure AI — humanoid robot maker founded 2022 by Brett Adcock (ex-Archer Aviation). Figu… vendor
- Claims / benefits $675M Series B Feb-2024; Helix VLA (Feb 2025) end-to-end vision-language-action; BMW par… vendor
- Modalities vision + language + full-body action vendor
- Created 2022 (founded) vendor
- Latest release Helix 2.5 (2026-09-17) vendor
- Mindshare Most-viral humanoid demos 2024 (OpenAI partnership video); $39.5B reported val 2025 vendor
- Citations Helix VLA cited in subsequent humanoid VLA literature vendor
- Funding $675M Series B Feb-2024 ($2.6B val); Series C over $1B committed at $39B post-money, Sep… vendor
- Customers / scale BMW manufacturing pilot; corporate alpha customers vendor
- Data handling Internal trajectory data; closed weights vendor
- Deployment Direct customer deployment (humanoid robot) vendor
- HQ US (Sunnyvale, CA) vendor
- Founders / pedigree Brett Adcock (CEO; ex-Archer Aviation, Vettery) vendor
- Memory volume / scale Pilot fleet (~10s of units) vendor
- Performance Helix VLA demos: bimanual sorting, end-to-end pick-and-place from camera vendor
- API surface No public API; closed humanoid platform vendor
- Backend storage Internal Figure cloud vendor
- Multi-tenancy Per-customer fleet vendor
- Encryption Enterprise-grade; details non-public vendor
- Versioning Robot generation (01 / 02 / 03) + Helix model versioning vendor
- Namespace primitives per-customer fleet vendor
- Validated verticals manufacturing (BMW), logistics, end-of-line picking vendor
- Time to running Months (humanoid integration + cell setup) vendor
- Anti-fit Closed humanoid platform — no developer API; alpha-customer-only vendor
- Optimised for End-to-end humanoid VLA — full-body + dexterous hand control vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure BMW manufacturing; OpenAI partnership (ended Feb 2025); Microsoft Azure vendor
- Pros Best-funded humanoid maker; Helix VLA is one of the highest-profile robotics-FM releases… vendor
- Cons Closed platform / weights; humanoid-only; production scale still small; valuation aggres… vendor
- Project & sources figure.ai; figure.ai/news/helix; figure.ai/news/bmw-figure vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup large-models repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-27
- Latest release “Helix VLA (Feb 2025); Figure 03 in development” → “Helix 2.5 (2026-09-17)” source
- Funding / ownership “$675M Series B Feb-2024 (Microsoft, OpenAI, Bezos, NVIDIA, Intel, LG Innotek; $2.6B val); reported $39.5B val funding Q2 2025” → “$675M Series B Feb-2024 ($2.6B val); Series C over $1B committed at $39B post-money, Sep-2025 (Parkway Venture Capital led)” source
Related systems
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