Figure AI's Index app pays users to film tasks, chasing a $26T humanoid robot market
DMaguireARK · x · 2026-09-04
Figure AI launched Index, a consumer app that pays people to record everyday tasks on camera, sourcing real-world physical data to train humanoid robots. ARK argues data diversity is the bottleneck for humanoid deployment at scale: its research pegs humanoids as 200,000X more complex than autonomous vehicles, implying a $26 trillion TAM split roughly evenly between household and manufacturing.
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