Figure's humanoid robot, Figure 02, is now being used commercially for the first time, and is making money for the robotics company.
The robotics company Figure AI, developer of the humanoid robot Figure 02, has delivered its humanoid robot to its first commercial customer. This was announced by the founder and CEO of Figure Brett Adcock on LinkedIn. The second iteration of the humanoid robot is already "hard at work", writes Adcock. However, it is unclear which company has purchased the robot and is now using it.
According to Digit by Agility Robotics, Figure AI's Figure 02 is now one of the first humanoid robots that have to earn their living in a company and put money in the developer company's coffers.
It did not take very long for the humanoid robot to be ready for use. In October 2023, Figure AI presented the first version of its humanoid robot Figure 01 to the public. The robotics company initially tested the robot together with car manufacturer BMW. This was followed in August 2024 by the revised version of the robot: Figure 02, which was also tested for two weeks at BMW's US plant in Spartanburg. The autonomous robot was used to insert sheet metal parts into machines. $BMW (-2,54%)
Working collaboratively with AI
In order to be able to communicate with humans and work more collaboratively, Figure entered into a partnership with the artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI. This enables the Figure 02 to respond to natural language instructions and perform various tasks autonomously. The robot can also answer questions. The aim is to get the robot to not only follow instructions, but to use AI to become a kind of "thinking" robot that can make decisions independently and communicate them to human employees.
Figure AI has not yet provided any information about its first commercial customer. The company is also not naming a price for its humanoid robot Figure 02.
The US start-up Figure AI, which combines robotics technology with AI, has impressively completed a financing round, raising 675 million US dollars. The list of investors, which includes Microsoft, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos and Cathie Wood, reads like a Who's Who of the tech industry. (14.03.24 23:07)
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