Figure's Vertical Integration: Hardware, AI, and Manufacturing On-Campus
adcock_brett · x · 2026-09-01
Figure Robotics co-founder Brett Adcock highlights the company's extreme vertical integration: robot hardware design, AI models, and manufacturing are all handled on their own campus. Cited context notes that Figure reached a $39B valuation in four years, built 1,000+ humanoids, and deployed at BMW. Its competitive edge lies in building the entire stack simultaneously—hardware, AI, data, factories, and real-world deployments—with Figure 02 already on the way.
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