TL;DR
A line of brand-new humanoid robots, fresh off the assembly line, walking across a company campus: that is the scene Figure's chief executive, Brett Adcock, posted on Nov. 2. The robots are Figure 03s, the same model that, by Figure's own account, has already finished whole household chores in homes it had never seen, and they were leaving BotQ, the factory Figure built to make them in volume. For now Figure sells them to business customers only, and the factory is designed to make up to 12,000 a year. The open question is pace: an outside count suggests the plant is running well below that today, and the next production number will say how fast the robot workforce really grows. For our odds on when Figure's factory hits full stride, and the timeline of breakthroughs between here and a robot in the home, subscribe.
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