Figure AI's Humanoid Robots with OpenAI Brains: What the Figure 02 Can Actually Do

Figure AI demonstrated Figure 02 completing unstructured manufacturing tasks — including assembling automotive components with bi-manual dexterity — using vision-language-action models trained with OpenAI. Unlike previous robot demos, Figure 02 recovered from errors, handled novel objects, and communicated task status verbally. BMW has deployed Figure robots at its South Carolina plant. The key technical advance: training on 50x more video data than previous generation using internet-scale robot learning approaches.