Figure AI · industrial humanoid
Figure 02
Second-generation Figure robot with 16-degree-of-freedom hands, a 2.25 kWh torso battery and onboard vision-language-action AI. Figure retired the fleet in late 2025 and melted most units down in 2026.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- 168 cmTaller than 55%
- Weight
- 70 kgHeavier than 60%
- Payload
- 20 kgCarries more than 72%
- Speed
- 4.3 km/hFaster than 41%
- Battery
- 5 hRuns longer than 59%
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Why it matters
One of the first humanoids to work an extended paid production pilot in a car plant (BMW Spartanburg).
Real-world use
Worked about 11 months at BMW Spartanburg, helping build more than 30,000 BMW X3s and loading over 90,000 sheet-metal parts; fleet retired Nov 2025.
Timeline
- Released
- 2024-08
Maker
Figure AICompany · founded 2022 · San Jose, California, United States$70M (May 2023); $675M at $2.6B (Feb 2024); over $1B Series C at $39B post-money (Sept 2025).
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Figure 02 is taller than 55% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Figure 02 is heavier than 60% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Figure 02 is faster than 41% of the 122 other humanoids that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Figure 02 carries more than 72% of the 132 other humanoids that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Figure 02 runs longer than 59% of the 119 other humanoids that publish a battery. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: joints, price.
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current humanoids.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 4 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs
- AI model
- Helix (Figure AI), OpenAI models for Figure robots (speech and reasoning) (OpenAI)
- Actuators & motors
- Custom motors sized to each joint and integrated with the joint drive trains; each finger has its own motor-and-sensor unit. The 3-DoF forearm became the top hardware failure point in the BMW deployment (Figure).
- Hands
- Fourth-generation hands: 16 DoF per hand, four fingers plus an opposable thumb, payload up to 25 kg, with wiring routed through a redesigned wrist.
- Sensors & vision
- Six RGB cameras; on-board microphones and speakers.
- Compute
- Three times Figure 01’s onboard computation and AI inference; an onboard vision-language model reasons from robot-camera images (Figure AI, 2024).
- Battery & power
- Torso-mounted pack with 50% more capacity than Figure 01, lowering the centre of mass; kWh and runtime not published.
- Materials & build
- Matte black covers; cabling routed internally through shoulders, elbows, hips and knees.
- AI & software
- On-board vision-language model; speech-to-speech models trained with OpenAI at launch; later ran Figure's Helix and Helix 02 VLA models.
- Other details
- At BMW it loaded sheet-metal parts within a 5 mm tolerance on 10-hour weekday shifts.
Named suppliers:OpenAI
Lineage
Every Figure AI humanoid in order.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- Not sold publicly; deployed in an 11-month paid pilot at BMW Spartanburg; fleet retired November 2025 and mostly melted down in September 2026 (Figure).
- Where it is sold or used
- United States (deployment); retired units melted in Finland
- Customers and pilots
- BMW Group Plant Spartanburg (2024-2025)
News
The latest 4, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- F.02 fleet melted down
Most retired Figure 02 units were melted at a foundry in Imatra, Finland, after US and Mexican foundries declined lithium-battery robots.
Figure AI - Introducing Helix 02: Full-Body Autonomy
Figure demonstrated Helix 02 performing a four-minute autonomous dishwasher loading and unloading task. The announcement describes Figure 03 tactile sensing and palm-camera hardware.
Figure AI - Figure retires F.02 after BMW deployment
Figure said F.02 ran 1,250+ hours, loaded 90,000+ parts and contributed to over 30,000 BMW X3s (company figures).
Humanoids Daily - Figure 02 tested at BMW Spartanburg
BMW reported a several-week trial inserting sheet-metal parts into chassis fixtures.
BMW Group
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | Figure 02Figure AI |  Optimus (Gen 1)TeslaSame job: industrial · Both walk · Both past robots · Similar size | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useBumble C (Optimus development platform)TeslaSame job: industrial · Both walk · Both past robots |  Optimus (AI Day 2022 prototype)TeslaSame job: industrial · Both walk · Both past robots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2024-08-06 | 2023-03 | 2022-09-30 | 2022-09-30 |
| Status | Retired | Retired | Retired | Retired |
| Height | 168 cm | 173 cm | — | — |
| Weight | 70 kg | 57 kg | — | — |
| Joints | — | — | — | — |
| Speed | 4.3 km/h | — | — | — |
| Payload | 20 kg | 20 kg | — | — |
| Battery | 5 h | — | — | — |
| Price | — | — | — | — |
Sources
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