Figure Launches Index, World's Largest Robot Dataset: 16M Videos, $15M Paid Out, $1B Committed
adcock_brett · x · 2026-08-26
Brett Adcock announced Figure is coming out of stealth with Index, billed as the largest and most diverse robot training dataset ever built.
- Collected over 4 months via a crowdsourcing app: 264k downloads across 100+ countries, 44k weekly active users
- Creators have uploaded 16M videos; the app processes 30 minutes of video per second (4.9 years of human work uploaded daily)
- $15M paid out to data contributors so far
- Committed to spending over $1B on data and compute in the next 12 months
Core thesis: robot generalization is a data problem — the data doesn't exist on the internet and must come from real-world physics sampled globally. Figure previously tried buying data, but vendors couldn't meet the throughput, diversity, or quality bar required by its Helix AI stack. Internal generalization results are said to validate the approach, with details to follow. The app is now live on Google Play and the App Store.
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