Figure Engineer's Regret: Tendon-Driven Hands Were a Major Mistake
RichardSSutton · x · 2026-08-17
Former Figure engineer Brett Adcock reveals that choosing tendon-driven hands for the F.01 robot in 2022 was a major error. While space-efficient and bio-inspired, the approach is a 'local maximum' that fails with manufacturing tolerances and physical changes. He argues for tight mechanical tolerances over relying on continual adaptation algorithms.
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