Research record R-023Pilot deployment

Figure 03

By Figure AI · United States · announced October 2025

Figure's third-generation humanoid, purpose-built around the Helix AI model and already rolling off a production line, but not for sale.

Broader research scope

This is a research record, not a curated recommendation.

The main field guide selects 14 companion robots for deeper review. This entry belongs to a separate 53-record index that also covers industrial, research, and developer systems.

Research summary

What the record says.

Figure 03, revealed on October 9, 2025, is the first Figure robot designed for the home: softgoods surfaces, washable outer layers, inductive charging feet, palm cameras, and a body about nine percent lighter than Figure 02. It exists to run Helix, the company's vision-language-action model that maps camera input and speech directly to full-body action.

Unlike its home-humanoid rivals, Figure is not taking orders. The robot is produced at BotQ, Figure's dedicated factory, which reached a rate of one robot per hour in April 2026; the company says over 350 units have been delivered to its headquarters, commercial customer sites and a limited number of residential homes for alpha testing. CEO Brett Adcock has floated an eventual price under $20,000 at scale, but no price or consumer date is official.

Figure's 2026 demonstrations set the public bar for humanoid autonomy: a four-minute unedited dishwasher unload and reload, two robots tidying a bedroom on a single Helix policy, and reported eight-hour autonomous logistics shifts. All are company-published; no independent audit of these demonstrations exists.

Delivery evidence

Announcement is not arrival.

Manufacturer claim

350+ units delivered from BotQ to Figure HQ, customer sites and residential alpha homes, per company (April 2026)

Reality check

Figure 03 is the strongest publicly documented case for home-humanoid autonomy, and also a reminder of how much rests on company-controlled evidence. The dishwasher and bedroom-tidying videos are presented as end-to-end neural network runs with no resets and no human intervention. Helix is trained on hundreds of hours of teleoperated demonstrations, but there is no evidence Figure's 2026 public demos were live-teleoperated, and equally no third party has been allowed to verify them.

You cannot buy one, and Figure has not said when you will. The homes that have Figure 03 units are alpha-test placements of undisclosed number and terms. Until an ordinary customer can order a robot and journalists can test one unsupervised, Figure 03's household usefulness remains a well-documented company claim.

Capability ledger

What has actually been shown?

4 material claims are separated by evidence setting and human involvement. The strongest recorded signal is Real-world demo; it does not automatically transfer to every row.

01
cleaning

Unloads and reloads a dishwasher; tidies rooms

Four-minute unedited dishwasher video (January 2026); two-robot bedroom tidy in under two minutes (May 2026)

Controlled demoVerified July 2026
Control mode
Autonomous
Human intervention
Company states none ('no resets, no intervention'); not independently verified
02
laundry

Folds towels and handles laundry

Controlled demoVerified July 2026
Control mode
Autonomous
Human intervention
Company states none; demonstrated on earlier hardware and Helix policies
03
conversation

Voice conversation and spoken task instructions

Controlled demoVerified July 2026
Control mode
Autonomous
Human intervention
None claimed
04
remote presence

Teleoperation used internally for training data

Real-world demoVerified July 2026
Control mode
Teleoperated
Human intervention
Human operators generate demonstration data; not an owner-facing feature
Body & movement

Hardware record.

Height
168 cm
Weight
60 kg
Locomotion
Bipedal walking
Payload
About 20 kg (claimed)
Runtime
About 5 hours active use (claimed)
Charging
Inductive charging through the feet on a floor dock (about 2 kW)
Top speed
About 1.2 m/s walking (claimed)
Degrees of freedom
Not fully disclosed
Hands
Five-finger hands with tactile fingertips and a camera in each palm
Face / expression
No face; sensor head, softgoods covering, audio for voice interaction
Sensors
Upgraded RGB camera suite with wider field of view, palm cameras, microphones and speakers
Intelligence & control

Software record.

AI platform
Helix (Figure's in-house vision-language-action model); Helix 02 since January 2026 adds full-body autonomy
Voice
Yes, natural-language commands and conversation
Languages
English demonstrated
Visual recognition
Objects, scenes and task context via Helix vision
Memory
Task and environment context; personal long-term memory not documented
Processing
Onboard GPUs run Helix locally; fleet learning via cloud
Autonomous abilities
Company-published demos show long-horizon autonomous chores (dishwasher, tidying, logistics shifts)
Teleoperation
Used for training data collection; company states public demos run autonomously
Software updates
Continuous model updates fleet-wide
Developer access
None; closed platform
Privacy & safety

Who can see, hear, or take control?

Figure has published far less about consumer privacy than 1X, largely because it has no consumers yet. Figure 03 carries always-on cameras (including in each palm) and microphones, processes Helix onboard, and uploads fleet data to improve the model. How recordings from alpha homes are stored, reviewed and deleted has not been publicly documented.

Recording storage
Onboard Helix processing; fleet data uploaded for training. Consumer-facing storage policy not published
Remote operation possible
Yes
Teleoperation disclosure
Not documented for alpha homes
Camera / microphone controls
Not documented
Data deletion
Not documented
Account required
Not applicable; no consumer product
Emergency stop
Not documented for home units
Children and pets
Softgoods exterior and compliant control marketed as home-safe; no published certification
Security updates
Continuous updates during pilot; no consumer commitment stated
Open questions

Disputed or unverified.

  1. The '$24,760 price' circulating on aggregator sites does not come from Figure
  2. No independent party has verified that Figure's 2026 demos involved zero live human assistance
  3. The number of alpha homes, and whether occupants are employees, is undisclosed
Lifecycle record

Status history.

  1. Public demonstration

    Figure 03 revealed with home-first design

  2. Prototype

    Helix 02 announced; four-minute autonomous dishwasher task published

  3. Pilot deployment

    BotQ production ramp; deployments to customer sites and alpha homes

  4. Pilot deployment

    Company reports 350+ units delivered and one-robot-per-hour production rate