Chris Ellis

Chris is the managing partner and a founding member of Bolen Robinson & Ellis, LLP. He graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University and Georgetown Law.

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

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.

[Molly O’Shea @MollySOShea]

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

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

@Codie_Sanchez SMB

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

@Jason @santoshshetty He’s a great dude. I haven’t walked the coals yet. Jason?

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

@adcock_brett We are enjoying the ride. Keep the posts coming. You’re winning. We see it. 💪

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

@HLPClips Excellent

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

@Jason I’m in on the apples! Just signed up for my first syndicate allocation. 🫡

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

@hubermanlab @AbudBakri @grok what is the proposed cycle for this combination

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

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.”

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

@AndrewYang The war on normal people is a great read

[@jason @Jason]

Gurley is back baby!!

Running down a dream 🎶

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

@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.

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

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.

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

@adcock_brett Heart felt congratulate to you and your team. Amazing work!

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

@rohanpaul_ai This is huge

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

@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.

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

Congrats @adcock_brett and the entire team! The future is now.

[Forbes @Forbes]

Figure Humanoid Robots Get Jobs With JCPenney, Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers https://t.co/8dnDH3PyJ8 (Photo: John Koetsier)

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

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

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

@Jason Love this

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

@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

[Chris Ellis @ChrisEllis]

My money is on @adcock_brett and @Figure_robot

[Eren Chen @ErenChenAI]

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%.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇺🇸 Thomas Massie:

"I lost the election, but we started a revolution."