Figure 02 Robot Factory Deployment: OpenAI-Powered Humanoid Robot Officially Starts "Work"

Figure AI announced that its Figure 02 humanoid robot has officially entered production at BMW's Spartanburg factory, performing automotive parts assembly tasks. The robot uses OpenAI's multimodal model to understand factory instructions and executes operations via a vision-language-action model. Initial efficiency is 30% of a human worker, with plans to increase to 70% within a year. Figure CEO stated that 100 robots will be deployed by 2025.