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Figure AI CEO Says Home Humanoid Figure 03 Could Do Chores by End of 2026

July 3, 2026 at 02:40 EDT

Robotics

Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock has said the company's third-generation humanoid robot, Figure 03, could handle household chores by the end of 2026. Officially unveiled in October 2025, Figure 03 marks a step beyond the company's earlier, largely industrial machines, positioned as a general-purpose humanoid built for home environments.

Oct 9, 2025 · Figure AI

Figure 03 aims to do your laundry, dishes and cleaning by the end of 2026

A third-generation general-purpose humanoid built for "Helix, the home, and the world at scale" — moving from proven factory work into autonomous, multi-step household chores.

173 cm

Height · 61 kg (~9% lighter than Figure 02)

20 kg

Payload · top speed 1.2 m/s

~5 hrs

Runtime · 2 kW wireless charging via feet

3 g

Fingertip sensitivity (a paperclip's weight)

Estimated cost: home vs. factory

Consumer price unofficial (~$20k); factory deployments reported at $30k–$150k. Scale in $ thousands.

~$20k

Home (estimated)

$30k

Factory (low)

$150k

Factory (high)

The path to the home

FACTORY

Logistics & production at BMW Spartanburg — learn general behaviors on the workforce first.

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PARTNER TESTS

Partner testing begins from late 2025; BotQ facility targets ~12,000 units/year.

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HOME · END 2026

Autonomous laundry, cleaning and dishes — full consumer rollout target.

CONCRETE PROGRESS

Non-teleoperated demos of watering plants, folding clothes and tidying. Two units autonomously cleaned a room and made a bed; the BMW logistics workflow is seen as real-world validation.

STILL "MESSIER"

Flawless demos may hide errors and human intervention in real use. Calls to track uptime, errors and intervention frequency — maturing continuous learning via Helix is the key gate to a home rollout.

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