Private markets
Robotics · Humanoid Robotics

Figure

Develops general-purpose humanoid robots for commercial work environments.

Research status
Research coverage
Headquarters
San Jose, CA
Coverage
2 product lines mapped
Last reviewed
September 2026
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What the company builds

Products and operating platforms help connect company-level news to the revenue pools, customers, competitors, and supply chains it may affect.

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Figure humanoids

General-purpose humanoid robots for industrial and home tasks.

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Helix

Vision-language-action intelligence for humanoid robots.

01 / THE BUSINESS

How Figure creates value.

Develops general-purpose humanoid robots for commercial work environments. The research focus is whether customer adoption can support attractive economics after development, delivery and ongoing service costs.

SectorRobotics
Founder coverage1 profile
Research checkedSep 18, 2026

02 / PEOPLE BEHIND THE COMPANY

Meet the builders.

Co-founder

Brett Adcock

Brett Adcock is a co-founder of Figure. The company’s founding and leadership material provides context for its work in humanoid robotics.

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03 / CAPITAL & OWNERSHIP

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  1. Equity

    Series C committed capital

    Disclosed amountMore than $1B
    Post-money valuation$39B

    Named participants: Parkway Venture Capital · Brookfield Asset Management · NVIDIA · Macquarie Capital · Intel Capital · Align Ventures · Tamarack Global · LG Technology Ventures · Salesforce · T-Mobile Ventures · Qualcomm Ventures

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04 / IN THEIR OWN WORDS

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05 / EDITORIAL ANALYSIS

The opportunity. The open questions.

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What could work

The case to investigate

  • The speed from prototype demonstrations to useful, repeatable paid deployments.
  • A stronger product position becomes economically meaningful when customers renew, expand and pay enough to cover delivery costs.
What could go wrong

Pressure-test the thesis

  • Capital intensity.
  • Deployment reliability.
  • Unproven unit economics.

What to watch next

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Customer pilots — what changed in the latest original disclosure?

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Task reliability — what changed in the latest original disclosure?

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Manufacturing cost curve — what changed in the latest original disclosure?

YOUR RESEARCH WORKSPACE

Keep the questions that matter.

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06 / RESEARCH TRAIL

Go straight to the source.

Research checked Sep 18, 2026. Selected public disclosures, not a complete capitalization table or securities-filing search. Missing information is left unconfirmed. No investment availability or IPO date is implied.

Why SMYC is watching

The speed from prototype demonstrations to useful, repeatable paid deployments.

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Signals to monitor

Customer pilotsTask reliabilityManufacturing cost curve

Risks to underwrite

Capital intensityDeployment reliabilityUnproven unit economics
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What an investor should actually diligence

Measure useful work delivered, not demonstrations. The key bridge is from a supervised pilot to repeatable deployments with improving utilization, reliability, service burden, and customer payback.

Buyer map

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Manufacturers and warehouses

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Logistics operators

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Automotive and industrial firms

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Research and development partners

Economics to request

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Paid deployments and contracted units

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Hours between intervention

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Bill-of-materials trajectory

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Deployment and support labor per unit

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Robot-as-a-service contribution margin

Moat tests

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Performance generalizes beyond staged tasks

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Data flywheel improves deployment speed

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Hardware supply chain can scale

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Customer payback survives labor and financing assumptions

Milestone map

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Pilot-to-production conversion

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Manufacturing ramp

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Autonomy reliability gain

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New task or environment deployment

Comparable lensesIndustrial automationWarehouse roboticsAutonomous vehiclesAI software and sensors
Underwriting framework

How to diligence Figure

A company-specific starting point based on the operating realities of robotics. Replace assumptions with verified company materials, customer evidence, legal documents, and expert work.

Economics to model
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Hardware gross margin

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Service and software revenue per deployed unit

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Manufacturing cost curve

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Customer payback period

Evidence of proof
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Paid deployments and renewals

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Robot-hours without intervention

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Task reliability across environments

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Serviceability and fleet uptime

Comparable lenses
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Industrial automation

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Machine vision

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Warehouse robotics

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Labor and fixed-automation alternatives

Questions to answer
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Does the demo generalize?

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Who carries maintenance and downtime risk?

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Which component controls cost?

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How much new data improves performance?

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