Shawn Ryan Tests a Real Humanoid Robot
Shawn Ryan tests Figure's third-generation humanoid robot, a 135-pound, 5'6" robot designed for household and commercial tasks. The company has achieved walking capability in just three years and is preparing to ship to commercial customers including BMW and major logistics companies.
Summary
The demonstration features Figure's third-generation humanoid robot, weighing 135 pounds and standing 5'6" tall, designed to perform human-like tasks including folding laundry, washing dishes, and manufacturing work. The robot represents significant improvements over previous generations, being lighter and skinnier while maintaining the same strength and speed. It features advanced sensory capabilities with cameras for vision, fifth-generation hands with palm cameras and tactile sensors in each fingertip, and 40 electric motor joints controlled entirely by neural networks without traditional code. The robot operates for 4-5 hours on a single charge and can recharge in one hour using inductive charging through foot pads that deliver about 2 kilowatts of power. Figure has secured commercial partnerships with BMW, a major logistics company, and Brookfield (a large real estate firm), with two additional customers to be announced within 60 days. The company manufactures these robots at their facility called Baku, producing one unit approximately every 90 minutes with plans to scale to 40-50,000 units annually at full capacity, and ultimately targeting one million units per year within the decade. The robot demonstrates impressive balance and push recovery capabilities, and the company achieved walking functionality within three years of founding, with plans for annual iterations that will dramatically improve each generation.
Key Insights
- Figure achieved walking capability with their humanoid robot within exactly three years of founding the company, marking a significant milestone in their development timeline
- The robot's movement and walking are controlled entirely through neural networks with no traditional code assistance, representing a pure AI-driven approach to robotics control
- Figure's current manufacturing facility can produce approximately one robot every 90 minutes and scale to 40-50,000 units annually at full capacity
- The company plans to achieve production of one million humanoid robots per year within this decade, comparing the scaling challenge to smartphone manufacturing
- Figure has secured commercial partnerships with BMW, a major logistics company, and Brookfield real estate, with two additional customers to be announced within 60 days
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Transcript
[0:16] All right. This is our uh figure 3 humanoid robot. It's uh we actually unveiled it last year. >> My god. >> Yeah. It's about 130 lb, 5'6, and uh we basically designed it to do most things like a lot of things humans do. >> 130 lbs. >> 135 lbs. Yeah. It's uh fold laundry, do dishes, do manufacturing, logistics. Um you know, I think a few things here that [0:47] we like made improvements on. This is our third time basically running through three generations of robots. Uh we've like we reduced reduced the weight and mass. Uh we made the robot skinnier but also same strength and speeds. Uh we upgraded the sensors on the robot…
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