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Figure AI
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BetaFigure Robotics develops autonomous humanoid robots to address labor shortages and improve safety, supporting automation in manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and retail.
Blurb
Figure Robotics is an AI robotics company that is building a multi-purpose humanoid form robot.
HQ Location
Sunnyvale (United States)
Founded
2019
Employees
720
Total funding raised
$854.00M
Last Funding Event
Series B, $675.00M, February 24, 2024
Smart insights
- Vadim Chernyak (Director Hardware Engineering) worked at Apple in various roles, including Senior Research Engineer, SPG, for a total of 2 years (2020 - 2022); at Google as Mechanical Engineer for 4 years (2014 - 2018)
- Eric Thompson (Senior Director Of Engineering) worked at SoFi as Sr. Software Engineer for 4 years (2014 - 2018)
- Michael Rose (Director of Robot Controls) worked at ARRIVAL as Lead Robotics Engineer for 2.5 years (2020 - 2022); at Apple as Senior Controls Engineer, Special Projects Group for 1.5 years (2018 - 2020); at Google for 4 years (2014 - 2018)
- 6m headcount growth: 33%
- 1Y headcount growth: 112%
- Headcount-to-last-round ratio: 2.3 employees/$M
Developer of humanoid robots designed to address drastic labor shortages, and reduce the number of workers in unsafe jobs. The company develops commercially viable autonomous humanoid robots that lend support across manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and retail, enabling businesses to deploy and automate manual labor.