7 stories on Figure AI since May 1, 2026, newest first, with 1 funding round from the tracker.
Unitree opens STAR Market book-building August 5 at a 42 billion yuan valuation with audited profit, the first humanoid robot maker to list publicly.
Figure AI's BotQ factory now builds Figure 03 at 1 robot per hour, a 24x throughput gain in 120 days and the fastest humanoid ramp in commercial history.
Figure raised over 1 billion at a 39 billion valuation, and its humanoid robots are really a data play to build the first physical AI foundation model.
Figure AI's Helix-02 completes a full 8-hour autonomous package sorting shift in May 2026, replacing 109,000 lines of code with a neural controller.
Figure AI's BotQ hit 1 humanoid/hour, a 24x increase in 120 days, with 350+ Figure 03 units delivered and a roadmap to 12,000/year production.
Figure 03's fleet of 7 robots achieves 24/7 lights-out autonomous operation in Sunnyvale as BotQ scales to 50,000 units per year.
Figure AI's BotQ facility produces one humanoid robot per hour, a 24x production jump in 120 days that signals the end of the humanoid prototype era.