Overview
Figure 02 is the second-generation humanoid robot from Figure AI, a San Jose, California company (headquartered in Sunnyvale when the robot was unveiled). Figure showed it in August 2024 as an adult-sized bipedal robot designed to perform human-like tasks in industrial settings and, eventually, the home.
The robot carries its intelligence onboard. Six RGB cameras feed a built-in vision-language model for common-sense visual reasoning, and integrated microphones and speakers enable speech-to-speech conversation. At launch those speech models came from a collaboration with OpenAI; Figure ended that partnership in February 2025 and moved all of its robot AI in-house. Figure 02 ships with roughly three times the onboard computation and AI inference of the first-generation Figure 01, including two GPUs.
Its fourth-generation hands have 16 degrees of freedom each and human-equivalent strength, and the robot can carry payloads up to 25 kg (55 lb). A 2.25 kWh battery pack integrated into the torso powers it, delivering more than 50% more energy than Figure 01. Figure later updated the platform to run Helix, the company's own vision-language-action model that drives the robot in real time from camera pixels.
Figure 02 is not a research prototype: Figure ran a roughly two-week pilot at the BMW Group plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where the robots fitted sheet-metal parts into a car chassis in the body shop. BMW has said there are currently no Figure robots at the plant and no fixed timetable for commercial deployment; the two companies continue to collaborate on future applications.