Figure AI will tell you that Figure 03 is 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighs 61 kg, carries 20 kg, runs for five hours and charges wirelessly through coils in its feet. It won’t tell you what one costs, how to order one, or how many customers actually own one.
That’s the Figure 03 story in miniature. Figure’s third-generation humanoid is among the best-documented robots from any US startup, with detailed hardware notes, a software timeline, production claims and two named commercial relationships. It’s also among the least specific on commercial terms. There’s no price, no order process, no count of customer-owned units and no independent safety certification for work near people. Here’s what Figure has published, what each claim actually amounts to, and what’s missing, as of October 4, 2026.
Figure 03 on paper
| Item | Figure’s published value |
|---|---|
| Height | 5 ft 8 in |
| Weight | 61 kg |
| Payload | 20 kg |
| Runtime | 5 hours |
| Speed | 1.2 m/s |
| Power | Electric; battery certified to UN 38.3 per Figure’s announcement |
| Charging | Wireless inductive charging, 2 kW, through coils in the feet |
| Data link | 10 Gbps mmWave data offload |
| Hands | Palm cameras; fingertip tactile sensors that detect about 3 g |
| Cameras | Twice the frame rate, one quarter the latency and 60 percent wider field of view than Figure 02 |
| Mass versus Figure 02 | 9 percent less |
| Price | Not publicly disclosed |
Figure’s Figure 03 announcement (October 9, 2025) describes a ground-up redesign with washable soft goods, a larger speaker (about twice the size and four times the power), and actuators it says are twice as fast, built in a vertically integrated way with in-house actuators, batteries and sensors. Those are design statements by the maker. The hand degree-of-freedom count is not stated on the pages we reviewed. For how this compares with other hands, see our article on the new Atlas hand.
Helix: the software timeline
| Date | Release | What Figure says |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 2025 | Helix | A vision-language-action model with a 7-billion-parameter System 2 running at 7 to 9 Hz and an 80-million-parameter System 1 at 200 Hz; trained on about 500 hours of teleoperated behavior data |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Helix 02 | Whole-body control; a four-minute dishwasher task with 61 loco-manipulation actions; a low-level “System 0” trained on over 1,000 hours of human motion data that replaced 109,504 lines of C++; “All videos… are fully autonomous, not teleoperated” |
| Sep 17, 2026 | Helix 2.5 | Evaluation in 30 previously unseen Bay Area homes on three behaviors (tidying a living room, folding towels, making a bed), blind scoring with no partial credit, and any human intervention for safety counted as a failure; a policy pretrained on Figure’s Index dataset of human behavior succeeded on 56 percent of zero-shot trials versus 9 percent for the same policy trained from scratch |
Helix 2.5’s own post says: “The point is not that general humanoid robotics is solved.” That is a useful calibration. A 56 percent full-task success rate (no partial credit) on three behaviors in 30 homes, reported by the company, is evidence of progress and also of how far reliable unsupervised home use remains: nearly half of trials still did not succeed. Our primer on vision-language-action models explains the architecture class, and our teleoperation vs autonomy guide explains why “trained on teleoperation” and “autonomous at run time” can both be true. Figure’s autonomy statements have not been independently audited.
BotQ and Figure’s production claims
Figure’s April 29, 2026 post, “Ramping Figure 03 production,” reports on its BotQ manufacturing facility:
- More than 350 third-generation robots delivered from BotQ.
- Production rate raised from one robot per day to one per hour, a 24-fold increase in under 120 days, with Figure saying it “successfully demonstrated the one robot per hour cycle time.” Demonstrating a cycle time is not the same as sustained monthly output, and Figure did not publish annual output for 2026.
- More than 150 networked workstations, hundreds of qualified suppliers, more than 50 in-process inspections and more than 80 functional tests per robot.
- End-of-line first-pass yield above 80 percent and battery-line yield of 99.3 percent; over 500 battery packs and 9,000 actuators produced.
- Fleet management with over-the-air updates and recall-campaign tooling.
Figure said robots are allocated to internal research and development, data collection, efforts to perform end-to-end housework, and commercial use-case development. The original Figure 03 announcement stated that BotQ was initially capable of producing up to 12,000 humanoids a year, with a goal of 100,000 over four years. Those are capacity and goal statements, not delivery data.
Who is actually using Figure 03
| Item | What Figure published | Evidence level |
|---|---|---|
| BMW Group Plant Spartanburg | June 30, 2026: a Figure 03 arrived at Hall 52 and performed what Figure called the “first demonstration of Figure 03 performing a logistics workflow” in a sequencing use case using Helix 02. Figure also says Figure 02 “contributed to the assembly of 30,000 cars at BMW last year.” | Company-reported demonstration/pilot; the 30,000-car figure is a company claim we did not verify with BMW |
| Catalyst Brands | May 26, 2026: a commercial agreement to deploy humanoids in Catalyst’s distribution network, starting at its Reno, Nevada distribution center; no number of robots or financial terms disclosed | Announced agreement; deployment scale not disclosed |
| Home use | Product page markets household tasks “all autonomously” | Marketing claim; no ordering or delivery terms found |
| Figure 02 fleet | Sept 30, 2026: Figure said most of the Figure 02 fleet has been retired and referred to a future “F.04”; no F.04 specifications were published | Company statement |
None of this amounts to a confirmed, independently verified commercial deployment at scale. Compare with how we grade other robots, such as Agility’s Digit 5 and Tesla’s Optimus, in our best humanoid robots 2026 ranking.
Funding and compute
- Series C (Sept 16, 2025): Figure said it had over $1 billion in committed capital at a $39 billion post-money valuation, led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participants including Brookfield, NVIDIA, Macquarie and Intel Capital.
- Nscale (Sept 3, 2026): a strategic partnership for up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs, with initial deployment in the second half of 2027 in Barstow, Texas, an initial compute commitment of $3.5 billion and an intent to scale beyond $6 billion. Nscale is also a strategic investor; the amount was not disclosed.
Funding is a statement about investor confidence and spending plans. It is not evidence of customer revenue. Figure has not published revenue.
What Figure still hasn’t disclosed
| Question | Status |
|---|---|
| Price, lease or subscription terms | Not publicly disclosed |
| Home ordering or delivery | Not publicly confirmed |
| Units with outside customers | Not publicly disclosed |
| Number of robots at BMW and Catalyst | Not publicly disclosed |
| Uptime, intervention rate or cost per task in real work | Not publicly disclosed |
| Third-party safety certification for operation near people | Not publicly confirmed |
| Hand degrees of freedom | Not found on Figure’s pages |
| FCC authorization and domestic-content status | Not publicly confirmed; see our FCC Covered List guide |
| Independent verification of autonomy claims | None found |
On price specifically: some third-party websites have quoted purchase prices and monthly fees for Figure 03. Figure’s pages do not contain those numbers, so we do not repeat them. For a robot with a published price and spec table, see Unitree’s G1, R1 and H2.
Our read on Figure
Figure is strong on technical disclosure about its own systems and weaker on third-party validation. The Helix 2.5 evaluation is a notable move toward measurable claims, because it published a protocol (blind, no partial credit, interventions count as failure). It is still run by Figure on three behaviors. A reasonable reading: the software and manufacturing claims are credible enough to watch closely; commercial scale, reliability in real work and home availability are open.
The three numbers that would change the picture are the ones Figure hasn’t published: a price, an order process and a count of customer-owned robots. Until one of them appears, Figure 03 is a well-documented robot with an undocumented business.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Figure 03 cost?
Not publicly disclosed. Figure’s product page and announcements list specifications but no price, lease or subscription terms. Prices quoted on third-party websites do not come from Figure and we do not repeat them.
Can I buy a Figure 03 for my home?
Not publicly confirmed. Figure’s product page markets household tasks such as laundry, cleaning and dishes, but we found no published ordering, delivery or home-availability terms. Figure’s April 2026 post says robots from its BotQ line go to internal groups and commercial use-case development, among other uses.
What are the main Figure 03 specifications?
Figure lists a height of 5 ft 8 in, weight of 61 kg, payload of 20 kg, a 5-hour runtime and a speed of 1.2 m/s. Its announcement adds palm cameras, fingertip tactile sensors that detect about 3 g, wireless inductive charging and a 10 Gbps wireless data link.
Is Figure 03 working at BMW?
Figure says a Figure 03 arrived at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in June 2026 and performed its first logistics workflow demonstration there. The number of robots, duration and production role are not disclosed, and we did not independently confirm the details with BMW.
How many Figure 03 robots have been built?
Figure said on April 29, 2026 that it had delivered more than 350 third-generation robots from its BotQ facility. It has not published a later count, and the post does not say how many are with outside customers.
Is Figure 03 teleoperated?
Figure says the videos in its Helix 02 announcement are fully autonomous, not teleoperated. That is a company claim without independent verification. Figure’s 2025 Helix paper noted training on about 500 hours of teleoperated data, which is a normal part of training.
Related reading
- Best humanoid robots in 2026
- What is a humanoid robot?
- What is a vision-language-action model?
- Teleoperation vs autonomy
- FCC Covered List and foreign-made robots
- Boston Dynamics Atlas four-finger hand
- Unitree G1, R1 and H2 prices and specs
Sources
All accessed October 4, 2026.
- Figure AI, Figure 03 product page: figure.ai/figure
- Figure AI, “Introducing Figure 03” (Oct 9, 2025): figure.ai
- Figure AI, “Ramping Figure 03 production” (Apr 29, 2026): figure.ai
- Figure AI, “F.03 at BMW” (Jun 30, 2026): figure.ai
- Figure AI, agreement with Catalyst Brands (May 26, 2026): figure.ai
- Figure AI, “Helix” (Feb 20, 2025): figure.ai
- Figure AI, “Helix 02” (Jan 27, 2026): figure.ai
- Figure AI, “Helix 2.5: zero-shot generalization in 30 homes” (Sep 17, 2026): figure.ai
- Figure AI, Series C announcement (Sep 16, 2025): figure.ai
- Figure AI, Nscale strategic partnership (Sep 3, 2026): figure.ai
- Figure AI, F.02 decommission post (Sep 30, 2026): figure.ai
Last updated: October 4, 2026. To report an error, see our corrections page. Articles are drafted with AI assistance and reviewed and edited by an editor; see our editorial policy. All Figure statements are company claims unless stated otherwise.
