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Figure Figure 03
The most valuable humanoid startup — and you can't buy one.
We haven't tested this machine hands-on, so this profile carries no rating — every fact below traces to the sources at the end, and the judgments are clearly ours. Full methodology on the Robot Tracker.
At a glance
- Status
- Pilot onlyWorking in partner facilities — you can't buy one
- Can you buy it?
- No
- Price
- Not for sale
- Form factor
- Bipedal humanoid
- AI brain
- Helix VLA (in-house)
- Maker
- Figure (US)
- Backing
- $39bn post-money (Series C >$1bn, Sep 2025 — the most valuable private maker)
Figure is the field's designated frontrunner: a $39bn post-money valuation (September 2025, the round exceeding $1bn with Nvidia, Intel Capital, LG, Salesforce and Qualcomm participating), an in-house VLA model called Helix, and its own BotQ factory, which had delivered 350+ Figure 03 robots by April 2026 against a stated plan of 100,000 humanoids in four years.
It also has the category's best-documented industrial receipt: an 11-month Figure 02 deployment at BMW's Spartanburg plant that the company says contributed to production of 30,000 cars. Figure's ambitions explicitly include homes — Helix demos show laundry-folding and dishwasher-loading — but there is nothing to buy at any price, and no stated timeline for when that changes. The $39bn question is whether real-world deployments can catch up to a valuation that already assumes they will.
What's real
- • Real production: 350+ Figure 03s delivered from its own BotQ factory by April 2026
- • The best-documented industrial track record of any US startup — an 11-month BMW plant deployment with published results
- • Helix, a serious in-house VLA whose demos (laundry, dishes) point squarely at the home
- • Deep-pocketed strategic backers across chips, telecom, and enterprise software
Know before you watch (or buy)
- • You cannot buy one, and Figure has published no date when you can
- • A $39bn valuation prices in a future far beyond anything yet deployed — expectations, not evidence
- • Home use remains a demo reel; every verified deployment is commercial
The evidence
BotQ factory delivered 350+ Figure 03s by Apr 2026 (100k-robot, four-year target); an 11-month Figure 02 deployment at BMW Plant Spartanburg contributed to production of 30,000 cars.
Sources: Reuters · Figure AI · Figure AI · The Robot Report
Bottom line
The strongest evidence-to-hype ratio among the Western startups — real factory, real BMW results, real production units — but as a buyer it's academic: there is no product, no price, and no date. Watch BotQ's numbers; they're the tell.
FAQ
Can you buy a Figure robot?
No. Figure 03 units go to commercial pilots and the company's own programs; there's no published price or availability date for businesses or consumers. Figure's stated plan is to ship 100,000 humanoids over four years from its BotQ factory, which had delivered 350+ robots by April 2026.
Is Figure 03 designed for homes?
Eventually, per Figure. Its Helix AI demos household tasks like folding laundry and loading dishwashers, and the company says homes and commercial operations are both targets. But every verifiable deployment so far is industrial (most notably an 11-month run at BMW Spartanburg), and there is no home availability timeline.