# Figure

> Figure is a Bay Area robotics company building autonomous, general-purpose humanoid robots powered by Helix, its in-house vision-language-action model. Founded by Brett Adcock in 2022, Figure is one of a small handful of companies racing to put commercially viable humanoids inside factories, warehouses and - by late 2026 - homes.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** San Jose, California, United States
- **Founders:** Brett Adcock (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** approx. 180 employees
- **Products:** Figure 03, Figure 02, Helix, BotQ
- **Notable:** Reached $39B valuation in roughly three years from founding., Built and retired two humanoid generations before unveiling Figure 03 in October 2025., Logged 1,250+ runtime hours and 90,000+ parts loaded at BMW Spartanburg.

## Products & services

- **Figure 03** — Third-generation general-purpose humanoid - 5'8", 61 kg, 20 kg payload, ~5 hours runtime, wireless charging through the feet, soft-textile exterior, tactile fingers sensitive to 3 grams of pressure. Designed for both commercial and home deployment.
- **Figure 02** — Production humanoid that logged 1,250+ hours and helped build 30,000+ cars at BMW's Spartanburg plant before being retired in favor of Figure 03.
- **Helix** — Figure's in-house Vision-Language-Action model. The first VLA to output high-rate continuous control of the entire humanoid upper body, and the first to operate two robots simultaneously on a shared task.
- **BotQ** — Figure's manufacturing facility, designed for 12,000 robots in year one and scaling to 100,000 per year.

## Achievements

- Reached $39B valuation in roughly three years from founding.
- Built and retired two humanoid generations before unveiling Figure 03 in October 2025.
- Logged 1,250+ runtime hours and 90,000+ parts loaded at BMW Spartanburg.
- Released Helix - the first VLA to control two humanoids simultaneously on a shared task.
- Closed $1B+ Series C, a 15x valuation jump from Series B in 18 months.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Founder Brett Adcock unveils Hark, a separate, self-funded AI hardware venture.
- **2026-05** — Figure livestreams a multi-day package-sorting demo and a 10-hour human-vs-robot competition, with the robot reportedly hitting 98.5% of human throughput.
- **2025-10** — Figure 03 unveiled - production-grade humanoid aimed at the home.
- **2025-09** — Closed $1B+ Series C at $39B post-money valuation.

## Links

- Website: https://figure.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/figure-ai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/figure_robot
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@figureai

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Last updated: 2026-05-29