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The demo videos are polished marketing content; real-world autonomy level is likely supervised-to-autonomous for specific logistics tasks.","videoUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu5mYMavctM","singleTake":"unclear","environment":"live_site","speedAltered":"unclear","autonomyClaimed":"yes","autonomyCorroborated":"partial"},"exportControlClass":null,"minCommitment":null,"warrantyTerms":null,"serviceModel":null,"productionRateClaimed":null,"productionRateEvidenced":null,"teleopRatioDisclosed":null,"interventionRateDisclosed":null,"company":{"id":"7107d624-dbc3-4d73-9103-1138ebf6f754","name":"Figure AI","slug":"figure-ai","description":"Sunnyvale-based humanoid-robotics company founded in 2022, among the fastest-moving US humanoid developers from prototype to production partnership. Its industrial humanoid [Figure 02](/models/figure-02) ran a flagship production deployment at [BMW](/companies/bmw)'s Spartanburg plant (since ended); the next-generation [Figure 03](/models/figure-03) (with notably dexterous hands, 16 DoF per hand) is its current platform, increasingly oriented toward both industrial RaaS and eventual home use. Figure develops its own [Helix](/brains/helix) vision-language-action AI and operates BotQ, a manufacturing facility tooled to produce up to ~12,000 Figure robots per year.\n\nFinancials: Figure raised over $1 billion in a Series C (September 2025) at a $39 billion valuation, a roughly 15x jump from its $2.6 billion valuation in February 2024, bringing total funding raised to roughly $1.7 billion. 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Robotics significance: site of the Figure 03 humanoid warehouse deployment at Catalyst Brands' Reno Distribution Logistics Center — a commercial agreement announced 2026-05-26 to deploy Figure 03 humanoids for sorting and packing merchandise for JCPenney, Brooks Brothers, and Aeropostale. The Reno facility received a $40M infrastructure upgrade in 2024. Anchored by deployment figure-03-reno-nevada-usa (operational, first seen 2026-05-25).","createdAt":"2026-07-27T00:15:37.279Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-27T20:11:36.370Z"},"operator":{"id":"7107d624-dbc3-4d73-9103-1138ebf6f754","name":"Figure AI","slug":"figure-ai","description":"Sunnyvale-based humanoid-robotics company founded in 2022, among the fastest-moving US humanoid developers from prototype to production partnership. Its industrial humanoid [Figure 02](/models/figure-02) ran a flagship production deployment at [BMW](/companies/bmw)'s Spartanburg plant (since ended); the next-generation [Figure 03](/models/figure-03) (with notably dexterous hands, 16 DoF per hand) is its current platform, increasingly oriented toward both industrial RaaS and eventual home use. Figure develops its own [Helix](/brains/helix) vision-language-action AI and operates BotQ, a manufacturing facility tooled to produce up to ~12,000 Figure robots per year.\n\nFinancials: Figure raised over $1 billion in a Series C (September 2025) at a $39 billion valuation, a roughly 15x jump from its $2.6 billion valuation in February 2024, bringing total funding raised to roughly $1.7 billion. Investors include NVIDIA and Qualcomm Ventures.\n\nReality check: Figure's elevated valuation is partly home-market optionality; CEO [Brett Adcock](/people/brett-adcock) has acknowledged home autonomy is not yet ready for unsupervised operation, so near-term revenue is industrial robots-as-a-service. The BMW deployment, though small in unit count, represents genuine factory integration rather than lab demos. 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