# Figure AI's Series C (2025)

Figure AI, an American robotics company founded in 2022 by Brett Adcock, raised over $1 billion in a Series C round in September 2025, reaching a $39 billion valuation. The funding supported its humanoid robot development and manufacturing expansion.

Figure AI, Inc. is an American robotics company developing humanoid robots powered by artificial intelligence. Founded in 2022 by Brett Adcock, the company has produced three generations of humanoid robots (Figure 01–03) and two iterations of a vision–language–action model (Helix 01–02). In September 2025, Figure AI completed a Series C financing round exceeding $1 billion, raising its total valuation to $39 billion.

The Series C round marked a significant milestone for the company, which had previously raised $70 million in May 2023 and $675 million in February 2024. The 2025 round attracted a diverse group of investors, including Brookfield Asset Management, Intel, Macquarie Capital, Nvidia, Parkway Venture Capital, Qualcomm, Salesforce, and T-Mobile. This capital injection supported the company's expansion of manufacturing capabilities and continued development of its [AI](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/artificial-intelligence)-driven robotics platform.

## Company Background

Figure AI was founded in 2022 by Brett Adcock, who also founded Archer Aviation, Vettery, and Hark. The company's first prototype, Figure 01, was introduced that year as a bipedal robot designed for manual labor, initially targeting logistics and warehousing sectors. The initial model used external cabling for easier maintenance. In May 2023, Figure AI raised $70 million from investors including Adcock, who invested $20 million, and Parkway Venture Capital.

In January 2024, Figure AI announced a partnership with BMW to deploy humanoid robots in automotive manufacturing facilities. The following month, the company secured $675 million in venture capital funding from a consortium that included Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel, and the startup-funding divisions of Amazon and OpenAI, valuing the company at $2.6 billion. Figure AI also announced a partnership with OpenAI to build specialized AI models for its robots, enabling language processing. This collaboration ended after a year, with Adcock stating that large language models had become a smaller problem compared to those allowing for "high rate robot control."

## Series C Financing Details

The September 2025 Series C round raised over $1 billion, bringing Figure AI's total valuation to $39 billion. This represented a substantial increase from the $2.6 billion valuation recorded in February 2024. The round included participation from both existing and new investors, with notable names such as Brookfield Asset Management, Intel, Macquarie Capital, Nvidia, Parkway Venture Capital, Qualcomm, Salesforce, and T-Mobile.

The funding was directed toward scaling production at the company's BotQ manufacturing facility, which aims to produce 12,000 humanoids per year with the assistance of its own robots. By April 2026, the company had delivered over 350 Figure 03 models and increased production output to one robot every hour. The capital also supported the development of the Helix vision–language–action model and the expansion of the company's robot fleet.

## Robot Generations

Figure 01, introduced in 2022, was the company's initial prototype designed for manual labor. Figure 02, released in August 2024, represented a significant advancement with five-fingered hands offering 16 degrees of freedom (DOF) and the ability to carry up to 25 kilograms (55 lb). The model featured integrated cabling, a torso-placed battery, six RGB cameras, and an onboard vision–language–action model. It had three times the computing power of its predecessor, including two graphics processing units supported by Nvidia, and could communicate with humans through microphones, speakers, and custom AI models developed with OpenAI.

Figure 03, introduced in October 2025, stood 5+1/2 feet (1.7 meters) tall with 60 total DOF, including 20 for each hand. The company described its hardware and software redesign as aiming to create a general-purpose robot able to learn directly from humans. The upgraded camera system delivered twice the frame rate, a quarter the latency, and a 60% wider field of view, plus a camera in each hand. Tactile sensors in the fingertips could detect forces as little as 3 grams (0.1 oz). The robot incorporated soft materials and a protected battery for safety, as well as removable, washable textiles, and supported wireless inductive charging.

## Helix AI Model

In early 2025, Figure AI announced Helix, a vision–language–action model that could control up to two robots at once. Helix enabled a robot to interact with the world without extensive manual training, allowing it to pick up nearly any small household object, according to the company. In January 2026, Helix 02 was released, expanding the AI model to the entire body to allow for functional autonomy. A Helix 02–powered Figure 02 was demonstrated loading and unloading a dishwasher, based on hours of motion-capture data and simulation-based machine learning.

## Production and Deployment

Figure AI announced BotQ in early 2025, a manufacturing facility aiming to produce 12,000 humanoids per year with the help of its own humanoid robots. By April 2026, the company had delivered over 350 Figure 03 models and increased production output to one robot every hour. By the end of June 2026, the company had about 740 robots operating, compared to only 600 humans. In August 2026, Adcock shared a video of a Figure 03 climbing a short ladder.

In late August 2026, the company launched a gig economy platform called Index to capture work data from humans wearing sensors, expected to cost $1 billion over the next year. The following month, Figure AI announced it would spend upwards of $3.5 billion on Nvidia GPUs by the next year.

## Public Demonstrations and Controversy

By early 2026, Figure 02 had been used in demonstrations showing it could load a washing machine, sort packages, and fold laundry. In March 2026, U.S. First Lady Melania Trump appeared at the White House with a Figure 03, promoting the presumptive eventual ability of AI to teach children. In May 2026, Adcock stated the company would soon lease the robot for domestic use for around $600 a month and announced that the Figure 04 design had been locked. A group of Figure 03 robots was livestreamed processing packages for almost a full week, inspiring a 10-hour competition between their product and a person; the robot performed 98.5% as well as the human.

In November 2025, the former head of product safety sued the company, claiming they were fired for raising concerns that the robots were strong enough to fracture a human skull. In April 2025, the company issued cease-and-desist letters to at least two secondary brokers promoting its private stock without authorization.

## See Also

- [Figure AI](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/figure-ai)
- [Sanctuary AI](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/sanctuary-ai)
- [Waymo](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/waymo)
- [Tesla Autopilot](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/tesla-autopilot)

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