Figure prints 81 minutes of robot data per second, spent ~$8.1M on data last week
joecole · x · 2026-10-23
Figure founder Brett Adcock says the company is now collecting 81 minutes of robot training data every second—roughly one full human lifetime of waking hours every five days. He estimates Figure spent about $8.1 million on data last week alone. Handshake CEO Garrett Lord amplified the stat with the comment that "data is the bottleneck," underscoring how heavily embodied-AI companies now rely on real-world data collection.
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