Hardware

Figure 01

Figure 01 is the first general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Figure AI, unveiled in 2023 as an electric, roughly human-scale bipedal platform aimed at commercial labor tasks. It gained attention through a BMW manufacturing partnership and a 2024 demonstration of speech-driven manipulation using OpenAI-powered reasoning. Figure subsequently iterated to Figure 02 and 03 and introduced Helix, an in-house vision-language-action model controlling the robot's upper body.

Why it matters for physical AI

Commercial humanoid programs like Figure's are proving grounds for end-to-end neural control at industrial reliability, and their hardware iterations show how quickly the platform layer beneath robot foundation models is evolving.