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New robots, new capabilities. Tracking what's coming for the workforce.

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Figure 03 Wraps 200-Hour Autonomous Marathon At 249,560 Packages With Zero Hardware Failures — The Originally-Planned 8-Hour Livestream That Stretched 25× — Brett Adcock Pops Champagne At Sunnyvale HQ, Confirms 「Figure 04 Design Finalized」, May 22, 2026

Figure 03 sorted 249,560 packages over 200 hours of unedited livestream — zero hardware failures, no humans in the loop, the equivalent of 25 human shifts. The next robot is already designed.

May 23, 2026 —

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Figure 03 vs. Intern Aime, May 17: Human Wins the 10-Hour Sort 12,924 to 12,732 — Margin Is 192 Packages, 2.79 vs. 2.83 Seconds Per Box — California Labor Law's Mandatory Meal & Rest Breaks Are the Entire Difference — Aime's Left Forearm 「Basically Broken」, Fleet Past 116h Continuous, Adcock: 「This Is the Last Time a Human Will Ever Win」

Figure AI pitted intern Aime against a Figure 03 fleet for 10 hours. The human won by 192 packages. The fleet had no breaks, no blistered fingers, and is still going at hour 116.

May 19, 2026 —

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Figure 03 BotQ Update, May 8: 1 Robot Per Hour, 350+ Cumulative Units, ~240 April Shipments — A Production Curve Without a Deployment Curve to Match

Figure says BotQ now ships one Figure 03 per hour — 24x throughput in 120 days, ~60 → ~120 → ~240 monthly units Feb-Apr, 350+ cumulative, 80%+ first-pass yield. The production line is real. The deployment line is still mostly BMW Spartanburg.

May 10, 2026 —

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Figure Shipped 150 Humanoids in All of 2025. They Just Shipped 240 in April Alone — Three Straight Months of Doubling, One Robot Off the Line Every 90 Minutes

Figure CEO Brett Adcock posted on Threads on April 23 that Figure shipped roughly 60 robots in February, 120 in March, and 240 in April 2026 — a clean three-month doubling. Combined April production exceeds the entire 2025 annual total of ~150. The bottleneck is shifting from manufacturing to deployment. Customers can't install humanoids as fast as Figure can build them.

Apr 30, 2026 —

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