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Figure AI
General-purpose humanoid robots aimed at manual labour in industry and, eventually, the home.
Figure is a US company building general-purpose humanoid robots intended to do physical work in factories, warehouses and eventually homes. Founded in 2022 by the entrepreneur Brett Adcock, it has moved quickly from prototypes to pilots, testing its robots on partner production lines and, for a period, running a collaboration with OpenAI before ending it in early 2025 to develop its own AI in house. In September 2025 the company said it had raised more than $1bn in a Series C round that valued it at about $39bn, with backers including Nvidia, Microsoft, Intel Capital and Jeff Bezos — one of the largest valuations yet attached to a humanoid-robot startup, and one critics note rests on capability the robots have still to demonstrate at scale.
- Category
- Robotics & embodied AI
- Founded
- 2022
- HQ
- Sunnyvale, US
- Funding
- ~$39bn valuation (Series C, Sept 2025); backers include Nvidia, Microsoft, Bezos Expeditions
- Key people
- Brett Adcock
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- Money & business 3
- Models & capabilities 1
Figure AI raises over $1B Series C at $39B valuation
Parkway Venture Capital led the round, with Brookfield, Nvidia, Salesforce, T-Mobile and Qualcomm among the participants funding humanoid-robot production and data collection.
Money & business
Figure raises $675M Series B, partners with OpenAI
Investors included Microsoft, Nvidia and Jeff Bezos; OpenAI agreed to develop language and reasoning models specifically for Figure's humanoid robots.
Money & business · Models & capabilities
Figure AI comes out of stealth, raises $70M
Parkway Venture Capital led the round a year after founder Brett Adcock self-financed the company's first $100 million, days before its robot took its first steps.
Money & business
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