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Company

Figure AI

Customers
BMW [1] [2] [3]
Deployment
Figure — California headquarters [1]
Deployment
BMW — Spartanburg manufacturing facility [1]
Deployment
BMW [2]
Deployment
BMW manufacturing plant — Figure 01 humanoid on assembly tasks [4]
Founded
2022 [5] [6]
Latest Form D
$674,981,967 sold (filed 2024-03-13) [7]
latest_round
$675M Series B (2024) [1] [2] [8] [9] sources disagree
Open roles
103 [10]
Partners
OpenAI [11]
Website
https://www.figure.ai/ [5]

Deployment evidence

Historical deployment

Figure 02 → BMW Group

BMW describes Figure 02’s earlier deployment and a successor Figure 03 project. Kept as a historical record; no current Figure 02 fleet is inferred.

Work
Automotive production
Location
Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA
Payment evidence
Payment undisclosed
Robots reported
Undisclosed
Report date
Record reviewed
  • BMW Group · Customer reportSupporting text found
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Robots

Leadership

  • Brett Adcock Executive Officer, Director Form D
  • Dana Berlin Executive Officer Form D
  • Lee Randaccio Executive Officer Form D
  • Logan Berkowitz Executive Officer Form D
  • Colby Adcock Director Form D
  • Jesse Coors-Blankenship Director Form D
  • Grant Hosking Director Form D
  • Peter Welinder Director Form D
  • Gregg Hill Director Form D

Competes with

Companies with robots in the same categories — computed, not sourced.

Timeline

  1. Why Is Everyone’s Robot Folding Clothes? IEEE Spectrum
  2. Figure will start ‘alpha testing’ its humanoid robot in the home in 2025 TechCrunch
  3. Figure's humanoids start doing tasks they weren't trained for New Atlas
  4. Figure AI is in talks to raise $1.5B at 15x its last valuation TechCrunch
  5. Nvidia is helping humanoid robots learn through Apple Vision Pro instruction TechCrunch
  6. Figure 02 performing tasks autonomously TechCrunch
  7. Face to face with Figure’s new humanoid robot TechCrunch
  8. Figure Unveils Next-Gen Conversational Humanoid Robot With 3x AI Computing for Fully Autonomous Tasks NVIDIA
  9. BMW tests Figure 02 humanoid on production line The Robot Report
  10. Figure 02 Robot Is a Sleeker, Smarter Humanoid IEEE Spectrum
  11. Figure’s new humanoid robot leverages OpenAI for natural speech conversations TechCrunch
  12. Video: Figure 01 humanoid trains for its first job assembling BMWs New Atlas
  13. Video: Talking Chinese humanoid is hot on the heels of OpenAI/Figure New Atlas
  14. Team and TAM: the keys to investing in robotics The Robot Report
  15. Mercedes puts Apollo humanoid to work on the production line New Atlas
  16. Video: GPT-enhanced humanoid speaks and reasons as it works New Atlas
  17. Figure AI’s $675 Million Breakthrough in Humanoid Robotics Unite.AI
  18. March of the humanoids: Figure shows off autonomous warehouse work New Atlas
  19. Figure AI eyes a $1.9 billion valuation as Microsoft and OpenAI show interest in its life-saving robots The Decoder
  20. Figure raises $70M to commercialize humanoids The Robot Report
  21. Figure Promises First General-Purpose Humanoid Robot IEEE Spectrum

References

  1. spectrum.ieee.org — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    Figure has been actively testing robots with BMW at a manufacturing plant in Spartanburg, S.C.
  2. techcrunch.com — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    Figure has already sold some robots to BMW.
  3. newatlas.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
    It seems the Figure 01 won't just be making coffee when it shows up to work at BMW.
  4. newatlas.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
    Figure announced its gleaming silver humanoid robot had got its first job working at a BMW manufacturing plant
  5. wikidata.org — retrieved Aug 5, 2026
  6. figure.ai — retrieved Aug 5, 2026
  7. sec.gov — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
  8. unite.ai — retrieved Aug 7, 2026
    Figure AI’s $675 Million Breakthrough in Humanoid Robotics
  9. therobotreport.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
    Figure raises $70M to commercialize humanoids
  10. boards.greenhouse.io — retrieved Sep 17, 2026
  11. newatlas.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
    Figure has demonstrated the first fruit of its collaboration with OpenAI to enhance the capabilities of humanoid robots.