Figure AI

Figure AI is a robotics company building general-purpose humanoid robots powered by AI foundation models. The company's Figure 02 robot combines a humanoid form factor with advanced AI reasoning, speech understanding, and manipulation capabilities, targeting commercial deployment in warehouses, manufacturing, and logistics.

Figure AI has partnered with OpenAI to integrate large language models into its robots, enabling natural language interaction and complex task reasoning. The company has also secured deployment agreements with BMW for manufacturing applications, demonstrating real-world viability of AI-powered humanoid systems.

Figure AI represents the embodied AI frontier of the agentic economy — the extension of autonomous agents from the digital world into physical space, where they can manipulate objects, navigate environments, and perform labor in the real world.