FigureAI Robots Surpass 24 Hours of Nonstop Warehouse Work
Figure AI said the robots sorted more than 30,000 packages with no failures as the demo stretched past 24 hours.
- Figure AI's humanoid robots completed over 24 hours of continuous autonomous package sorting, surpassing the company's initial eight-hour goal. The California-based startup livestreamed the operation, where three robots—nicknamed Bob, Frank, and Gary—sorted more than 30,000 packages.
- CEO Brett Adcock designed the robots to run on the company's in-house Helix-02 neural network, enabling autonomous vision-based reasoning. The system allows humanoids to reach near-human sorting speeds of three seconds per package.
- While millions of online viewers called the feed "surprisingly addicting," roboticist Ayanna Howard of Ohio State University's College of Engineering offered skepticism. She described the humanoids as "science project" machines rather than ones ready for commercial deployment.
- Robots automatically leave the work floor for maintenance if hardware or software issues arise, allowing another unit to take over operations. Adcock emphasized this fully autonomous process involves no remote teleoperation and includes automatic system resets.
- Figure AI competes against Tesla and Agility Robotics to commercialize humanoids for warehouse and factory environments. These general-purpose machines might soon be coming to production lines, positioning the startup in an emerging logistics automation market.
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