I challenge anyone who is hating on @adcock_brett and @Figure_robot to watch @MollySOShea’s excellent onsite interview. You can root for @elonmusk and @Tesla_Optimus AND admit that what Brett and his team have accomplished in under 4 years is extraordinary.
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
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(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
Correct. We need a plan that is proactive. But our political class is asleep at the wheel fighting over the same old bullshit and once again bogged down in the Middle East. So we will wait and then have to react once Unemployment hits 10% and riots in the street are common place. This will turn out to be positive but the transition is going to be as Elon said “a shit show.”
@RepLuna Correct. So what is the plan from Congress. And when are you going to ensure that we don’t import Chinese humanoids. We need to support @Figure_robot, @Tesla_Optimus, etc. If we allow the cheap floodgates to open we will have an entire army here within the year.
The CCP has launched an all out war against American AI.
The divide we are seeing in this country is largely driven by bots and paid actors violating FARA.
@ThisWeeknAI@Jason@kanjun@imbue_ai@fraenkelj Wispr flow has been life-changing for me. I cannot type because of an injury so having something that can actually formulate thoughts into coherent text is literally an answered prayer.
I’m excited to announce that Figure has signed a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands, the operator of JCPenney, Aéropostale, and Brooks Brothers
We’ll work to deploy humanoid robots at scale, starting with initial deployment in Reno, NV
@segev_yaniv@ScienceFocusonX@grok@grok is this seriously for someone like me who is 50 and requires 1.75 strength reading glasses but otherwise has good vision
Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing: Whoever builds the first Generalized Robotics Foundation Model deserves a Nobel Prize.
He also said Unitree is working in that direction too, but the probability of succeeding is currently below 50%.