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    Figure AI

    Also known as Figure, Figure AI Inc.

    Figure AI is a humanoid robot company that builds both its robots (Figure 02 and Figure 03) and their AI, a vision-language-action model called Helix.[1][2] It raised more than $1 billion at a $39 billion valuation in 2025.[3] It is best known for working inside BMW's Spartanburg plant, where Figure 03 began logistics work in June 2026.[4]

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    Key facts

    Figure AI designs its humanoid hardware and its robot AI in-house. Its deployment at BMW, a named industrial customer, is documented by BMW itself.[1][5]

    Helix, Figure’s robot AI

    Figure develops its own vision-language-action model. The first Helix (February 2025) runs an onboard vision-language model at 7-9 Hz (“System 2”) that steers a fast visuomotor policy outputting actions at 200 Hz (“System 1”).[1] Figure says it was the first VLA to give high-rate continuous control of a humanoid’s whole upper body, including individual fingers, and that it runs entirely on onboard GPUs.[6] Helix 02 (January 2026) coordinates the hands, arms, torso and feet.[7] Figure showed it unloading and reloading a dishwasher across a kitchen in a four-minute autonomous run. Underneath is System 0, a learned whole-body controller trained on more than 1,000 hours of human motion data and sim-to-real reinforcement learning.[8] Figure says System 0 replaced 109,504 lines of hand-written C++ code with one neural network.[9]

    In September 2026 Figure reported that Helix 2.5 carried out three behaviours in 30 Bay Area homes where no data had been collected: tidying, towel folding and bed making. It reached 56% zero-shot success. A model without pretraining on Figure’s “Index” human-behaviour dataset reached 9%.[10]

    Robots and manufacturing

    Figure introduced Figure 03 in October 2025. It has a redesigned camera and hand system for Helix and fingertip sensors that detect forces of about three grams. Figure also built a factory, BotQ, designed to make up to 12,000 robots a year.[2] In April 2026 Figure said BotQ had delivered more than 350 Figure 03s and raised output from one robot a day to one an hour in under 120 days.[11] On 30 September 2026 it said it was retiring its Figure 02 fleet because maintaining it no longer made sense as the Figure 03 fleet grew.[12]

    BMW deployments

    BMW says Figure 02 completed an 11-month deployment in the Spartanburg, South Carolina body shop, inserting sheet-metal parts for welding. More than 30,000 BMW X3s were built during that period.[5] In June 2026 Figure 03 started sequencing work in the plant’s logistics area, picking unsorted parts into trolleys in the order assembly workers need them.[4] In May 2026 Figure signed a second commercial deal, with Catalyst Brands, owner of retailers including JCPenney, to deploy humanoids in its distribution network, starting at a logistics center in Reno, Nevada.[13]

    Funding and scale

    In September 2025 Figure said its Series C had exceeded $1 billion at a $39 billion post-money valuation, led by Parkway Venture Capital.[3] Its scale is still small. AP reported that Tesla and Figure each shipped a few hundred humanoids or fewer in 2025, against more than 5,000 each for China’s Unitree and AGIBOT.[14]

    Data and compute

    In August 2026 Figure launched Index, an app through which people upload videos for robot training; it said it had received over 16 million videos, paid $15 million to contributors and committed to spend over $1 billion on data and compute over the next 12 months.[15] In September 2026 it agreed with the cloud provider Nscale to deploy up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs from the second half of 2027, an initial $3.5 billion compute commitment, with Nscale also investing in Figure.[16] Figure credits Index pretraining for the jump from 9% to 56% zero-shot success in its home tests.[10]

    Questions readers ask

    What is Figure AI's Helix?

    Helix is Figure's in-house vision-language-action model. A slower onboard vision-language system guides a fast policy that outputs actions at 200 Hz.[1]

    Does BMW really use Figure robots?

    BMW says Figure 02 completed an 11-month deployment in its Spartanburg body shop. In June 2026 Figure 03 began parts-sequencing work in logistics at the same plant.[5][4]

    Can Figure robots work in homes?

    Figure reported in September 2026 that Helix 2.5 did tidying, towel folding and bed making in 30 homes it had not seen, with 56% zero-shot success.[10]

    How many robots has Figure built?

    Figure said in April 2026 that BotQ had delivered more than 350 Figure 03 robots and reached a rate of one robot an hour. These are company figures.[11]

    How much is Figure worth?

    Figure's September 2025 Series C valued it at $39 billion post-money.[3]

    Sources

    Each numbered claim is a statement we checked against the sources listed with it. Status shows how well established it is.

    1. [1]

      Figure's Helix (February 2025) is a vision-language-action model with a slower onboard vision-language "System 2" at 7-9 Hz and a fast visuomotor "System 1" that outputs actions at 200 Hz. confirmedas of 2025-02-20

    2. [2]

      Figure introduced Figure 03 on October 9, 2025, with a redesigned sensor and hand system for Helix, fingertip sensors that detect about three grams of force, and a BotQ factory designed to make up to 12,000 robots a year. confirmedas of 2025-10-09

    3. [3]

      In September 2025 Figure said it had raised more than $1 billion in Series C funding at a $39 billion post-money valuation, in a round led by Parkway Venture Capital. confirmedas of 2025-09-16

    4. [4]

      In June 2026 BMW and Figure began using Figure 03 for parts sequencing in logistics at the Spartanburg plant, picking unsorted components into trolleys for assembly workers. confirmedas of 2026-06-30

    5. [5]

      BMW says Figure 02 completed an 11-month deployment in the body shop of its Spartanburg plant, inserting sheet-metal parts for welding, during which more than 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles were produced. confirmedas of 2026-06-25

    6. [6]

      Figure says Helix was the first VLA to output high-rate continuous control of an entire humanoid upper body, including individual fingers, and that it runs on embedded onboard GPUs. confirmedas of 2025-02-20

    7. [7]

      Figure says Helix 02 coordinates Figure 03's hands, arms, torso and feet. confirmedas of 2026-06-30

    8. [8]

      Figure says Helix 02 (January 2026) controls the whole robot from pixels, unloading and reloading a dishwasher across a kitchen in a four-minute autonomous task, using a learned whole-body controller, System 0, trained on more than 1,000 hours of human motion data and sim-to-real reinforcement learning. confirmedas of 2026-01-27

    9. [9]

      Figure says System 0 replaces 109,504 lines of hand-engineered C++ code with a single neural network. confirmedas of 2026-01-27

    10. [10]

      On September 17, 2026 Figure reported that Helix 2.5 performed tidying, towel folding and bed making in 30 Bay Area homes where no data had been collected, with 56% zero-shot success versus 9% without pretraining on its Index human-behavior dataset. confirmedas of 2026-09-17

    11. [11]

      Figure said in April 2026 that its BotQ factory had delivered more than 350 Figure 03 robots and raised production from one robot a day to one an hour in under 120 days. confirmedas of 2026-04-29

    12. [12]

      Figure said on 30 September 2026 that it was decommissioning its Figure 02 fleet because maintaining it no longer made sense as its Figure 03 fleet grew. confirmedas of 2026-09-30

    13. [13]

      In May 2026 Figure signed a commercial agreement to deploy humanoids in Catalyst Brands' distribution network, starting at its Reno, Nevada logistics center; Catalyst operates brands including JCPenney. confirmedas of 2026-05-26

    14. [14]

      About 15,000 humanoid robots were shipped worldwide in 2025; Unitree and AGIBOT each shipped more than 5,000, while Tesla and Figure each shipped a few hundred or fewer. reportedas of 2026-07-29

    15. [15]

      In August 2026 Figure launched Index, an app that pays people to record videos for robot training; Figure said it had paid $15 million to contributors, received over 16 million videos and committed to spend over $1 billion on data and compute in the next 12 months. confirmedas of 2026-08-25

    16. [16]

      In September 2026 Figure agreed with Nscale to deploy up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs from the second half of 2027, an initial $3.5 billion compute commitment, with Nscale also investing in Figure. confirmedas of 2026-09-03

    17. [17]

      NVIDIA named 1X, AGIBOT, Agility, Boston Dynamics, Figure and others among humanoid developers building on its robotics platform in March 2026. confirmedas of 2026-03-16

    Revision history (2)
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    2. Added Helix 02's System 0 controller, the BotQ production ramp, the Catalyst Brands deal, the Index data programme, the Nscale compute deal and the Figure 02 retirement.

    Created Oct 10, 2026. Last reviewed by an editor on Oct 10, 2026. Next scheduled review: Jan 10, 2027.

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