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Figure AI was founded in January 2022 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley, California, USA, as an American AI and robotics company focused on developing general-purpose humanoid robots.
Founder Brett Adcock is known for his hard-tech startup style in Silicon Valley.
Its investors include top institutions and individuals such as OpenAI, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
The company was valued at $2.6 billion during its early 2024 funding round, and after completing a Series C round of over $1 billion in 2025, its valuation surged to $39 billion, making it one of the highest-valued humanoid robotics startups globally.
The company has built a production line with an annual capacity of 12,000 robots.
Its first product, the Figure 01, features bipedal walking, dexterous manipulation, and multimodal perception capabilities.
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