Figure AI
Figure AI is a San Jose, California, robotics company building general-purpose humanoid robots. It announced more than $1 billion of Series C funding at a $39 billion valuation in September 2025.
Industry: Humanoid robotics | Location: San Jose, United States | Founded: 2022 | Total Funding: USD 745M
About Figure AI
Figure AI is a United States robotics company that develops general-purpose humanoid robots. It is headquartered in San Jose, California, and describes its mission as expanding human capabilities through advanced artificial intelligence. Its founder's master plan, published in May 2022, says the robots will not be used for military or defence applications.
Brett Adcock is founder and chief executive. He previously founded Archer and Vettery, according to the master plan. Figure was founded in 2022, and its first robot, Figure 01, took its first steps in May 2023.
Figure 02 is a workplace model with improved hand dexterity and a battery built into the torso, and Figure 03, introduced in October 2025, is redesigned for use in homes. Helix is its vision-language-action model for perception, reasoning and control, and Helix 02 followed in January 2026. Series C proceeds are earmarked partly to expand production at its BotQ facility.
Figure 02 worked at the BMW Group plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, for 11 months and contributed to the production of more than 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles; in June 2026 Figure 03 began working in an assembly and logistics hall at the plant. In September 2025 Figure and Brookfield agreed a partnership covering a humanoid training dataset and possible deployment across Brookfield properties. In May 2026 it agreed with Catalyst Brands, the owner of JCPenney, to deploy robots in a Reno distribution centre. In September 2026 it signed a compute partnership with Nscale for up to 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs, with an initial commitment of 3.5 billion US dollars.
Figure raised a 70 million dollar Series A in May 2023 led by Parkway Venture Capital, with 9 million dollars from Intel Capital added in July 2023. A 675 million dollar Series B in early 2024 valued it at 2.6 billion dollars, with investors including Microsoft, the OpenAI Startup Fund, NVIDIA and Jeff Bezos. On 16 September 2025 Figure announced more than 1 billion dollars of committed Series C capital at a 39 billion dollar post-money valuation, again led by Parkway.
Leadership
- Brett Adcock, Founder and Chief Executive Officer