Figure 04 hits full design lock; Brett Adcock calls it the iPhone 1 of humanoids
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-10-23
Figure founder Brett Adcock shared Figure 04 progress at the company all-hands, stressing that pre-training at scale is the key to winning robotics.
- Figure 04 is in "full design lock," with parts already shipping
- In-house actuators are being brought up, aiming to have every unique actuator fully characterized and running by end of week
- New hands are "engineering masterpieces" — months spent perfecting millimeter-level fingertip and contact-surface tracking
- He advocates a pre-training paradigm: combine the world's largest data and compute so one model learns general behavior for humanoids
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