John W. Little

I’ve been tracking humanoid robotic startup Figure for a while but they are just now, thanks to a string of significant progress updates, starting to really grab people’s attention in a significant way. This interview with CEO Brett Adcock is the most revealing update that I’ve seen to date.

AI and robotics are enablers and drivers for each other’s development in a very profound way. I think we’ll see more progress in the next 3-5 years than we have seen in the previous couple of decades and the capability/deployment curves will just rise exponentially from there.

This is an interesting and rare peek at the progress of humanoid AI robotics company Figure.

Here’s a video roundup of the humanoid robot projects from Apptronik, Sanctuary AI, Agility Robotics, Tesla, Unitree, and Figure that I’m actively tracking. AI was already driving rapid progress in the field but recent advancements have pushed the financial incentives through the roof. We should start seeing significant deployments (beyond current pilots at places like Amazon) of this form factor within the next 2-3 years (China is leaning into this in a big way) which will should only serve to accelerate progress even more.