Develops autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots for real-world work environments.
Company reports real-world deployments and production expansion; BMW partnership provides pilot/deployment evidence, but no verifiable shipped-unit count was imported.
Commercial pilots and deployments for logistics and industrial tasks.
- Sep 28, 2026Developer tooling
NVIDIA announced a platform combining the OpenShell runtime and the Sentry reference design to apply external controls to AI agents. The release names Figure, Gecko Robotics and Skild AI among the companies working with OpenShell for physical autonomous systems.
Participation does not establish which silicon is installed in any robot, nor a safety certification or fleet-wide adoption. One announcement, not one event per participant.
nvidianews.nvidia.com ↗ - Sep 17, 2026Model release
Figure reported that Helix 2.5 generalised zero-shot across 30 previously unseen homes, an internal evaluation of its vision-language-action model.
A company test across 30 homes, not commercial domestic distribution.
figure.ai ↗ - Sep 3, 2026Partnership
Figure and Nscale signed a strategic partnership giving Figure access to up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs for future model training.
Up to 100,000 Vera Rubin GPUs for future training. These are not onboard chips and this is not a Figure funding round.
figure.ai ↗ - Aug 25, 2026Research
Figure introduced Index, a data collection and curation pipeline the company says supplies its humanoid training corpus. The scale figures are company-reported.
A dataset and collection pipeline. Metrics are company-stated.
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