Though Atlas was designed to resemble a person in other ways, its hands aren’t exactly one-to-one. Instead, company engineers ...
OpenAI-backed robotics startup Figure unveiled its second-generation bipedal humanoid robot, the Figure 02 (F.02), on Tuesday. The automaton is being developed to perform menial tasks on factory ...
Figure AI’s new humanoid robot, Figure 03, is designed for mass production, powered by AI, and capable of folding laundry, ...
When Figure AI, a high-profile humanoid robot startup, announced a commercial agreement with automaker BMW early last year, it was a signal to venture investors and the rest of the robotics industry ...
Figure today announced a "commercial agreement" that will bring its first humanoid robot to a BMW manufacturing facility in South Carolina. The Spartanburg plant is BMW’s only in the United States. As ...
Training has already begun in Figure's labs for the first tasks the 01 will start attempting at BMW, although the two companies are yet to announce exactly what it'll be doing on the factory floor.
US companies are reshoring manufacturing due to rising Chinese wages, IP concerns, and supply chain resilience, with humanoid robots like Figure AI playing a pivotal role. Nvidia Corporation's ...
BMW has signed a first-of-its-kind deal to put “humanoid” robots to work at one of its factories. The robots, which are designed to be more operationally flexible than traditional industrial robots, ...
Intel Corp.’s venture capital arm has invested $9 million in Figure AI Inc., a startup working to build a humanoid warehouse robot. TechCrunch reported the investment today. Intel’s capital infusion ...
Figure AI Inc., a startup developing humanoid robots, is reportedly in talks to raise $500 million in new funding led by Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI, according to a report from Bloomberg. Although the ...