Deployment
Figure 03 at Spartanburg
3rd generation humanoid robot designed for Helix AI, home use, and mass manufacturing. Features redesigned sensory suite with palm cameras, tactile fingertips (3g sensitivity), wireless charging (2 kW inductive), soft washable goods, 9% less mass than Figure 02. Manufactured at BotQ facility.
Figure 03 by Figure AI · Operated by BMW Group · Catalog entry · 3 sources · not yet field-verified · Humanoids
Recent coverage
- Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?TechCrunch – AI · 2026-07-26
- BotQ has manufactured our 1,000th humanoid robot for F.03X (Twitter) · 2026-07-23
- A Golden Milestone: Figure Manufactures Its 1,000th Figure 03 HumanoidHumanoids Daily · 2026-07-23
Figure 03 deployed in Hall 52 at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg. Successor to Figure 02 pilot. Transition from functional prototype to scalable fleet production.
Exposure
- Customer segment
- manufacturing
- Scale tier
- pilot lt10
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Safety record
No incidents on record for Figure 03 at Spartanburg.
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- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 3 sources · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-08-21
- Model
- Figure 03
- Company
- Figure AI
- Location
- United States/South Carolina/Spartanburg
- Operator
- BMW Group
- Status
- operational
- Operator type
- customer deployed
- Scale at site
- 2 to 10 units
- Site environment
- indoor
- Location precision
- verified coordinates
- First seen
- 2026-01-01
- ID
0b65d286-9a96-4724-a9b1-eb1b904b39a8
Timeline
- Jan 2026First recordedFigure 03 first documented operating at Spartanburg.
- Aug 2026Current status: operational, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
On the deployment map
Figure 03 operates in Spartanburg. Explore the full verified map:
Sources (3)
- BMW Group advances the use of Physical AI in production with Figure 03 project in Spartanburg · https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T0458778EN/bmw-group-advances-the-use-of-physical-ai-in-production-with-figure-03-project-in-spartanburg · 2026-06-25
- F.03 Arrives at BMW · https://www.figure.ai/news/f-03-at-bmw · 2026-01-01
- https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T0458778EN/bmw-group-advances-the-use-of-physical-ai-in-production-with-figure-03-project-in-spartanburg?language=en · 2026-06-25
Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: humanoid
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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- Data documentation: /data
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