Figure AI’s humanoid robot has worked continuously on the BMW X3 production line for five months, operating for 10 hours a day and proving the durability of humanoid robots in actual production environments.
Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock announced that the company’s humanoid robots have been working without interruption for five months on the X3 vehicle body production line at a BMW facility in the USA. According to Adcock, the robot works for 10 hours each production day. This represents the longest duration a humanoid robot has achieved in a real manufacturing environment.
Figure Robots on the Production Line
In a video shared by Adcock, the robot is seen picking up metal parts and placing them onto the production line. It is also clear that the robot is not causing any delays in the production line. Previously in May, Adcock had reported that a Figure robot had completed a 20-hour continuous run. The newly shared data of five months of continuous work demonstrates the potential for humanoid robots to operate reliably and consistently in industrial workflows.
The collaboration between Figure AI and BMW dates back to 2024. The partnership aimed to test and implement humanoid robots for physically demanding and repetitive tasks in the automotive giant’s facilities. The current progress indicates that these goals are being approached.
On the other hand, there are still uncertainties regarding performance metrics such as the robot’s level of autonomy, the frequency of human intervention, its speed, and error rate. These data points are critical for the industry to assess the economic viability of humanoid robots and the advantages they might offer over traditional automation systems.
A New Robot is on the Way
Figure recently raised over $1 billion in funding, increasing its valuation to $39 billion. The company is using this capital to develop new technologies and says its latest robot will be unveiled this week. CEO Adcock is quite ambitious about it, stating, “This will be the least crazy thing you see from us this week.” A short video shared by Figure shows the gait of the next-generation robot. While details are hard to make out, it’s possible to say it exhibits a very human-like walk. The company’s current most advanced robot is called Figure 02. The new robot will likely be named Figure 03.
One of the Leaders in the Field
Figure is not just a startup that produces humanoid robots; the company is also an artificial intelligence company. They are so confident in their capabilities in this area that they decided to end their collaboration with OpenAI.
Earlier this year, a new machine learning model for humanoid robots called Helix was introduced. Helix stands out as a “general-purpose” Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model, controlling the robot in real-time by combining visual data and language commands.
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