Figure runs zero-new-training robot tasks across 30 rented Bay Area homes, hinting at 'baby RGI'
DeryaTR_ · x · 2026-09-19
Figure CEO Brett Adcock announced the company rented 30 homes in the Bay Area and had its robots perform tasks in completely unseen environments without any new training — calling generalization to unseen places the 'holy grail' of robotics. The post drew commentary that Figure may have built an early form of RGI (robotic general intelligence), suggesting scaling laws analogous to LLMs also apply to physical intelligence, with the path to full RGI now 'a matter of massive data.'
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