Figure’s Humanoid Factory Tour – CEO Brett Adcock

About this episode

Molly O'Shea takes an exclusive tour of Figure's robotics campus with CEO Brett Adcock, exploring the development and testing of humanoid robots.

For the first time ever, Figure is opening every door. Sourcery gets the first full tour of Figure's robotics campus with Founder & CEO Brett Adcock — and we see everything. Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life, designing, building, and testing every robot in-house. In this exclusive walkthrough, Brett takes us through all the departments on their San Jose campus: System integration lab where robots are stress-tested with software faults and physical pushes Helix AI team floor where the controls and neural network engineers train the vision-language-action model that runs onboard every Figure robot Reinforcement learning & stability testing area where Figure demos the Vulcan project — surviving a lost knee mid-task — and lets Molly push the robot to test its RL-trained balance Home environment where Figure 03 autonomously tidies a living room using their Helix neural network (no teleoperation) BotQ manufacturing facility where heads, batteries, and limbs come together on the assembly line, including the custom-built battery line and end-of-line burn-in bays Industrial design studio — opened publicly for the first…

People in this episode

Host: Molly O'Shea

Guest: Brett Adcock

Topics covered

• humanoid robots
• AI robotics
• robotics campus tour
• AGI
• neural networks
• robot testing

Keywords

• humanoid robots
• Figure
• Brett Adcock
• robotics
• AI
• neural networks
• robot testing
• AGI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Figure

Products: Figure 03, Figure 01, Figure 02, Helix AI, Vulcan project

Places: San Jose

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