Figure's Index launches as world's largest robot dataset, $15M paid out, $1B committed

adcock_brett · x · 2026-08-26

Brett Adcock announced Index is coming out of stealth as the world's largest and most diverse robot dataset. Key numbers: 30 minutes of video uploaded per second, 16M video uploads, $15M paid to contributors to date, and 264k downloads. The company is committing $1B to data and compute over the next 12 months.

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