🇺🇸 Figure AI

About Figure AI

Figure AI was founded in 2022 by Brett Adcock, previously co-founder of Archer Aviation. The company raised $675 million in a funding round that included notable backing from Microsoft, NVIDIA, Intel Capital, and OpenAI, bringing significant compute and AI expertise into the development pipeline. The scale and speed of that fundraise reflected investor confidence in the general-purpose humanoid market rather than any prior robotics track record from the founding team.

The flagship product is Figure 02, a humanoid developed in collaboration with OpenAI to integrate conversational AI and vision-language models directly into robot decision-making. BMW became the first disclosed commercial pilot partner, deploying Figure robots at its Spartanburg, South Carolina plant for assembly and materials handling tasks. The company's stated ambition is to produce humanoids at automotive manufacturing scale, positioning cost reduction as the central long-term challenge.

Figure AI represents one of the most heavily funded pure-play humanoid startups and is on a compressed timeline to demonstrate commercial viability before its funding runway requires further capital events.

Key Products

• Figure 02: General-purpose bipedal humanoid; designed for automotive and industrial assembly tasks
• Figure 01: First-generation prototype; used internally and in early pilot programmes (not commercially available)

UK Market Presence

Figure AI has no UK sales presence, distribution network, or documented UK deployments. The company is focused on US manufacturing pilots. UK organisations interested in humanoid automation at this stage would need to engage through Figure's enterprise pilot enquiry process directly. Import and customs considerations would add material cost to any UK acquisition.

Buying Used Figure AI Equipment

No secondhand market exists for Figure robots. Units deployed in BMW and other pilots are under proprietary service agreements and are not available for resale. The platform is too new and too tightly controlled for surplus hardware to appear through conventional channels. Any listing claiming to offer a used Figure 02 should be treated with significant scepticism.