Machinery

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Graco Inc.

A parking-lot attendant's fix for a frozen grease gun turned into a century-long fluid-handling empire. Here is how Graco quietly became the company inside your paint sprayer, your car's assembly line and your factory's pumps.

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Legend

Executive · Operator

Ronald Henry

A marketing chief inside a 130-year-old industrial name, working out of the Ohio city where powered flight was invented.

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Company

Ai · Hardware · Enterprise

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.

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