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Figure AI
The first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life
U.S. humanoid robot maker Figure AI released a video on Sept. 30 showing several retired Figure 02 robots jumping into molten steel, in a farewell staged with “Terminator” star Arnold Schwarzenegger and intended to mark the company’s shift to newer models. The company said the footage was not AI-generated. It trained the robots to jump, shipped them to Finland and placed them into molten metal. In the video, multiple Figure 02 robots stand at the edge of a furnace, look into the molten steel, back away, run and leap in. Another robot is lowered by chain and raises a mechanical thumb before being submerged. Schwarzenegger, who starred in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” took part and said: “Hasta la vista, Figure...
Figure, the U.S. humanoid robot developer, has released Helix 2.5, its most advanced neural network model to date, and said it enabled zero-shot whole-body autonomy in 30 real homes. Figure called it the first demonstration at that scale of zero-shot whole-body behaviour generalisation for a humanoid robot. The company said a single pre-trained foundation model was applied to three types of behaviour: locomotion; manipulation of rigid and deformable objects; and bimanual coordination, as well as active perception. Figure said that, with task-specific data, architecture, training method and evaluation unchanged, pre-training on Index alone raised zero-shot recognition success to 56% from 9%. Index is Figure’s robot dataset project built for global scale. The model also validated a Human-to-Humanoid Robot Transfer Scaling...
Humanoid robotics company Figure has signed a multi-year strategic partnership with Nscale, a UK-based AI cloud infrastructure provider, to deploy up to 100,000 GPUs on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. The initial compute commitment is valued at $3.5 billion, with both parties intending to scale the deal to over $6 billion. First deployment is targeted for the second half of 2027 at Nscale’s data center in Barstow, Texas. As part of the agreement, Nscale will also make a strategic equity investment in Figure and become its preferred compute provider. The two companies will explore using humanoid robots to expand Nscale’s own supply chain operations. Nscale, which counts NVIDIA as an investor following its participation in the firm’s Pre-Series C SAFE...
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