Figure AI, Inc. is a United States-based robotics company specializing in the development of
AI-powered
humanoid robots.
It was founded in 2022, by
Brett Adcock
Brett Adcock (born April 6, 1986) is an American technology entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Figure AI, an AI startup working on a general-purpose humanoid robot. In 2018, Adcock founded Archer Aviation, five years after he started Ve ...
, the founder of
Archer Aviation
Archer Aviation is a publicly traded company headquartered in San Jose, California, which is developing eVTOL aircraft.
Its eVTOL aircraft are planned to transport people in and around cities in an air taxi service and are claimed to have a rang ...
and
Vettery.
Figure AI's team is composed of experts from robotics, artificial intelligence, sensing, perception, and navigation, blending experiences from notable companies like
Boston Dynamics and
Tesla.
History
In 2022, the company introduced its prototype, Figure 01, a
bipedal robot
Bipedalism is a form of terrestrial locomotion where an organism moves by means of its two rear limbs or legs. An animal or machine that usually moves in a bipedal manner is known as a biped , meaning 'two feet' (from Latin ''bis'' 'double' a ...
designed for manual labor, initially targeting the
logistics and
warehousing sectors.
In May 2023 the company raised $70 million from investors led by Parkway Venture Capital.
On January 18 2024 Figure announced a partnership with
BMW to deploy humanoid robots in automotive manufacturing facilities.
In February 2024, Figure AI secured $675 million in venture capital funding from a consortium that includes
Jeff Bezos,
Microsoft,
Nvidia,
Intel, and the startup-funding divisions of
Amazon and OpenAI.
The funding valued the company at $2.6 billion.
It also announced a partnership with
OpenAI. The collaboration includes OpenAI building specialized AI models for Figure's humanoid robots, allowing them to accelerate Figure's development timeline by enabling its robots to "process and reason from language".
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American companies established in 2022