BREAKING: First-Ever Full Tour of Figure's Humanoid HQ
CEO Brett Adcock
Exclusive look through every department on their San Jose campus:
BotQ Factory, Testing, Design, Demos & more.
Brett walks us through how Figure is built:
- System integration lab: where robots are stress-tested with software faults & physical pushes
- Helix AI: team floor where the controls & neural network engineers train the vision-language-action model that runs onboard every Figure robot
- Reinforcement learning & stability testing: where Figure demos the Vulcan project — surviving a lost knee mid-task
- Home: environment where Figure 03 autonomously tidies a living room using their Helix neural network (no teleoperation)
- BotQ: manufacturing facility where heads, batteries, and limbs come together on the assembly line, including the custom-built battery line & end-of-line burn-in bays
- Industrial design studio: (opened publicly for the first time) housing every generation of Figure robot ever built, including: Figure 01 with its Frankenstein forearms, Figure 02, & the sleek Figure 03 that recently appeared at the White House, plus the evolution of Figure's hands & feet
Brett shares why he believes humanoid robots may achieve AGI before any other form factor, why Figure pivoted entirely from hand-coded controls to neural networks, & teases that Figure 04 will be their "iPhone 1 moment."
This was so much fun!
Big thank you to Brett & the team at Figure for opening the doors for us!
@adcock_brett@Figure_robot
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(00:00) Inside Figure’s Humanoid Campus
(00:48) The humanoid factory
(03:18) First humanoid guest at the White House
(05:29) Controlling a robot with infinite movements
(10:46) The truth about robot failures
(13:00) Attacking a humanoid robot (testing responses)
(16:12) Building a general purpose robot
(23:05) The "Never Fall" protocol
(28:56) Is the home robot teleoperated?
(33:36) Leasing a 24/7 robot
(35:01) Can a humanoid build a real car?
(43:32) From flying robots to humanoids
(45:59) The hidden path to physical AGI
(56:21) Figure's secret design studio
(01:00:44) Figure 4: The biggest leap in robotics
(01:06:25) Training robots in spandex
(01:10:26) Westworld, TIME Magazine, & Deadmau5
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