Executive Overview
Figure AI announced the real-world commercial deployment of its Figure 02 humanoid robot fleet across high-volume automotive manufacturing facilities. Equipped with on-board neural speech processing and custom fourth-generation dexterous hands, the bipedal robots operate autonomously alongside human assembly workers.
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Architecture
The Figure 02 platform runs an integrated Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model trained directly on multi-camera stereoscopic RGB and tactile sensor data. The robot translates visual perception into direct 16-degree-of-freedom hand motor commands at 200 Hz.
Hardware and Operational Specifications
- Dexterous Hands: 16 degrees of freedom with integrated sub-millimeter tactile pressure sensors on every fingertip.
- On-Board Compute: Dual custom GPU modules running localized low-latency vision inference without external cloud tethering.
- Battery Endurance: 2.25 kWh custom lithium-ion battery pack supporting over 5 hours of continuous industrial work per charge.
“General-purpose humanoid robots are moving from research lab demonstrations to production manufacturing floors.” — Brett Adcock, CEO of Figure AI