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Figure Retires Figure 02 With Furnace Sendoff as It Shifts to Figure 03

September 30, 2026 at 15:52 EDT

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Figure released a September 30 film showing its retired Figure 02 humanoid being lowered into a glowing furnace with Arnold Schwarzenegger participating in a Terminator-style sendoff, turning a prototype retirement into a public marker of its shift to Figure 03. The September 30 release says CEO Brett Adcock described the setup as taking place in Finland with a 75-ton electric arc furnace; the same account says bonus clips showed Figure 02 robots jumping or flipping into the furnace, but did not explain how those shots were produced.

September 30, 2026 | Figure

Figure 02's Furnace Farewell

A retired Figure 02 humanoid was sent off in a Terminator-style furnace film as Figure shifts attention to Figure 03, Helix 02 and scaled deployments.

75 tons

electric arc furnace setting

90,000+

sheet-metal parts loaded at BMW

30,000+

BMW X3 vehicles supported

1,250+

runtime hours reported

A prototype generation moved from lab to line

Figure described Figure 02 as having 3x the onboard computation and AI inference of the previous generation.

1xprevious gen

3xFigure 02

The farewell is spectacle; the underlying story is a fast hardware cycle from Figure 02 learnings to Figure 03 manufacturing.

What the sendoff connects

BMW field run

F.02 retirement

Furnace film

Figure 03 scale-up

Positive read

A memorable brand moment around a robot generation that completed a real factory deployment.

Critical read

The jump shots are not a measured agility demo, and the business case still depends on repeatable autonomy and reliability.

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