Figure rented 30 Bay Area homes to test robot generalization with no new training
Rewkang · x · 2026-09-18
Figure CEO Brett Adcock says the company rented 30 homes in the Bay Area and is having its robots perform tasks in these unseen environments without any new training, calling generalization to unfamiliar places the holy grail of robotics.
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