Figure 03
Figure 03 is Figure AI's third-generation humanoid, unveiled on 9 October 2025 and designed for the home and for volume manufacturing at Figure's BotQ facility. It has soft textile coverings, wireless charging, palm cameras and tactile fingertips, and runs the Helix model onboard. It is the company's first robot designed for mass production rather than hand assembly.
Figure AI press imageThe verdict
Enormously funded, technically impressive, and not for sale. Figure places machines with partners and publishes no price. Estimates cluster around $150,000, which tells you more about the estimators than about Figure.
- Buy it if
- Nobody who is buying. This is a company to watch, not a product to purchase.
- Skip it if
- You are shopping.
In its favour
- Frontier capability
- Serious manufacturing investment
Against it
- No price, no order path
- Partner deployments only
How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
What people buy instead.
- Status
- Limited production
- Category
- general purpose
- First revealed
- 9 October 2025
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 168 cm
- Weight
- 60 kg
- Payload
- 20 kg
- Degrees of freedom
- n/a
- Battery
- 2.3 kWh
- Runtime
- 5 h
- Walking speed
- 1.2 m/s
- Actuation
- electric
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- no
Where it stands
Built at Figure's BotQ plant from late 2025; used in Figure's home alpha program and commercial pilots; not sold to consumers.
What stands out
- Designed for the home: soft coverings, wireless 2 kW charging
- Fingertip tactile sensors and palm cameras
- BotQ plant: 12,000 units per year initial capacity
- About 9 percent lighter than Figure 02
Autonomy, observed
Figure videos show household chores (laundry, dishes) and logistics tasks; independent reporting of the home alpha program is limited.
Figure says Helix runs onboard; data collection uses teleoperation and human video.
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: five-finger, fingertip tactile sensors sensitive to about 3 grams, palm cameras
- Sensors: head cameras with wider field of view, palm cameras, fingertip tactile sensors, microphones
- Compute: onboard compute running Helix; Figure has not published the hardware
- AI stack: Helix VLA model
Price and volume
no public price
BotQ designed for 12,000 units per year initially, with a stated goal of 100,000 units over four years.
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, Figure 03 sits at #15 of 107 with 48 points: deployment 20/50, autonomy 28/30, availability 0/20. See that method.
Where Figure 03 works.
| Customer | Site | Sector | Task | Since | Status | Units | Autonomy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private homes in the Figure home alpha program, United States | home | Household chores such as loading a dishwasher, folding laundry and tidying, used for Helix data collection | 2025 | pilot | n/d | mixed |
Milestones.
Figure unveils Figure 03
Figure 03 is designed for Helix and for home use, with a soft textile cover, wireless charging feet, palm cameras, tactile fingertips and a body designed for mass manufacturing at BotQ. Figure says it is 9 percent lighter than Figure 02.
Figure raises over 1 billion dollars at a 39 billion valuation
Parkway Venture Capital leads the Series C, with Nvidia, Brookfield, Intel Capital, LG Technology Ventures, Macquarie, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce and T-Mobile Ventures. The valuation is fifteen times the 2024 Series B.
Figure announces BotQ, a factory for 12,000 humanoids a year
Figure says its BotQ facility will initially produce up to 12,000 robots a year with a path to 100,000 over four years, using robots to build robots. It positions manufacturing capacity as the next bottleneck.
In the news.
Figure AI: what $39 billion has shown so far
Four rounds, $1,754,000,000 raised, one named customer, no price and no unit count. The record on the most valuable humanoid company, generation by generation.
How a humanoid robot works: actuators, compute, sensors and the model
Of 182 humanoids on record, 178 say what moves the joints and 43 say what computer is inside. The further a layer sits from the metal, the less the maker tells you about it.
How long does a humanoid robot actually run
22 of 182 humanoids on record quote a runtime. The claims run from 1 to 8 hours with a median of 4, and of the 44 machines you can order, 4 say anything at all.
Who is paying for humanoids: 69 funding rounds
Our funding record holds 69 entries. Take out the government funds, the acquisitions and the IPOs and $6.33 billion of disclosed private money remains. 37 percent of it went to companies with no robot on record.
44 you can order, 138 you cannot: the gap explained
We keep a record of 182 humanoid robots. Fewer than a quarter of them will sell you one, and of those, only eight tell you the price on their own website. Here is where the rest went.
China builds, America demos: what 108 makers tell you
Chinese makers account for 65 of the 182 humanoids in our record and 31 of the 44 you can order. American makers hold the money, the research and most of the autonomy claims, and sell you almost nothing.
Other robots by Figure AI.
Figure 01
Figure 01 was Figure AI's first humanoid, shown walking in October 2023 and demonstrated with OpenAI's vision-language model in March 2024. It was 168 cm tall, 60 kg, with a 20 kg payload and five-hour runtime. It established the company and led to the BMW agreement in January 2024.
Figure 02
Figure 02, unveiled on 6 August 2024, added onboard speech, six cameras, 16 DoF hands and three times the compute of Figure 01. It became the first Figure robot to work in a customer plant, at BMW Spartanburg, and the platform for the Helix vision-language-action model. Figure retired it in favour of Figure 03 in late 2025.
Sources
- 01Introducing Figure 03Figure AI · 2025-10-09
- 02Figure AIFigure AI
Price sources
- 01Humanoid robots for sale: 2026 guideThere's A Robot For That · 2026-08-15
- 02Humanoid robot prices, 2026 guideRobotSourced · 2026-07-31
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