Figure Robots Roam San Jose HQ With No Engineers Watching Them
Brian821 · x · 2026-09-10
Scoble shares that at its San Jose headquarters, Figure has a bunch of humanoid robots walking around with no engineers supervising them. Commenters respond that they'd love to see robots eventually doing productive work—trimming grass, sweeping, and maintaining things everywhere.
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