Figure 03: the published specs and what the footage actually shows

Figure AI unveiled Figure 03 on 9 October 2025. Its product page lists a height of 5 ft 8 in, a weight of 61 kg, a 20 kg payload, five hours of runtime and a walking speed of 1.2 m/s. Figure's later footage of homes and of BMW supports some of the hardware claims. None of it is an independent test.

What Figure announced in October 2025

In its launch announcement, Introducing Figure 03, Figure describes the robot as a full redesign built around Helix, its in-house vision-language-action model. A vision-language-action model is AI software that takes in camera images and spoken or written instructions and outputs motor commands directly. Figure says the robot was designed for the home and for production at scale, and also suits commercial work.

The Figure 03 product page gives these specifications:

• Height: 5 ft 8 in (about 1.73 m)
• Weight: 61 kg
• Payload: 20 kg
• Runtime: 5 hours
• Speed: 1.2 m/s
• Drive: electric

The sources disagree on height. TIME's launch-day report, The Robot in Your Kitchen, called it a 5-foot-6 robot. Figure's own page is the reference for the specification, but readers comparing figures should know they differ by about five centimetres.

The hardware changes, one by one

Hands and touch

According to Figure, the hands have softer, more adaptable fingertips that increase the contact area with an object. Figure designed its own fingertip tactile sensors and says they can register forces as small as three grams. Each palm also has a camera. Figure says this gives close-range, redundant vision while the hand is grasping, which matters when the hand itself blocks the head cameras' view.

Cameras, actuators and data

Figure says the new vision system has twice the frame rate, a quarter of the latency and a 60% wider field of view per camera than the one in Figure 02. Figure states that the actuators are twice as fast as before and have better torque density (torque per kilogram of motor). The robot can also upload data over a 10 Gbps mmWave link. That matters to Figure because fleet data is used to train Helix.

Charging and battery

Figure says Figure 03 has inductive charging coils in its feet that charge at 2 kW, so the robot can step onto a wireless stand to recharge. The company says the redesigned battery has UN38.3 certification, the UN transport-safety test for lithium batteries, and several layers of protection against abuse and malfunction.

Body, safety and sound

The outer shell is mainly washable textile rather than machined hard parts, and multi-density foam covers pinch points. Figure says it can remove these soft goods without tools and offers versions in cut-resistant materials. Figure 03 is 9% lighter than Figure 02 and takes up much less space, according to the company. The speaker is twice the size and nearly four times as powerful as the previous one, and the microphones have been moved to pick up speech more clearly.

Manufacturing

Figure says Figure 03 relies on tooled processes such as die-casting, injection moulding and stamping, and costs much less to build than its predecessor. It gives no cost figure. TIME reported that the components are 90% cheaper to manufacture. Figure also said its BotQ plant could initially build up to 12,000 humanoids a year, with a goal of 100,000 robots over four years.

What the footage shows: the home

The home footage mostly came after the launch. In January 2026, Introducing Helix 02: Full-Body Autonomy showed Figure 03 unloading and reloading a dishwasher across a full-sized kitchen in a sequence lasting about four minutes. Figure says there were no resets and no human intervention. The same post shows finer work: unscrewing bottle caps, taking pills out of an organiser and dispensing set volumes from a syringe. Figure credits the tactile sensors and palm cameras for these grasps, which makes this the clearest link so far between a hardware claim and visible behaviour. Figure called the results early.

In September 2026, Helix 2.5: Zero-Shot 30-Home Generalization moved the tests into 30 Bay Area homes that the robot had not seen before. The tasks were putting toys into a basket, folding towels and making beds. Figure reports a 56% success rate with its new pretraining approach, compared with 9% without it. A task only counted as a success if the robot completed all of it, and Figure says it fixed the criteria before testing began. Figure also says the results do not mean general-purpose humanoid robotics is solved.

At that success rate, the robot failed to finish nearly half of these household tasks in unfamiliar homes. The progress is real, but the evidence comes from the manufacturer's own evaluation and has not been replicated independently.

What the footage shows: the factory

In June 2026, Figure published F.03 Arrives at BMW, showing the robot at BMW's Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina. It performs a logistics sequencing job: it picks parts up with both hands, adjusts its feet and posture to keep its reach and balance, and places each part in the right slot. Figure says Helix 02 corrects the robot's movements continuously because parts do not arrive in identical orientations. The post gives no throughput, uptime or error rate, and does not say how long the deployment will run.

Production claims

In Ramping Figure 03 Production, dated 29 April 2026, Figure said it had delivered more than 350 Figure 03 units. It also said it had raised output from one robot a day to one an hour in under 120 days. The company reported an end-of-line first-pass yield above 80%, meaning the share of robots that pass final checks without rework. The users it names are internal R&D, data collection, household automation and commercial use-case development, not external customers. In September 2026, Figure said it was retiring its Figure 02 fleet as the Figure 03 fleet grows.

Claims versus evidence

Some claims are supported by what Figure has shown. Fine tactile grasping and palm-camera grasping appear in the Helix 02 footage, multi-minute household sequences are on video, and a factory sequencing task has been filmed at BMW. Others have not been shown publicly in any measurable way:

• the five-hour runtime
• the 2 kW wireless charging in real use
• the 20 kg payload
• a full day of autonomous work

Independent reporting adds context. TIME visited Figure in August 2025, before launch, and saw Figure 02 robots doing the laundry tasks. In those demos, towels caught on a basket and the robot froze, and twice a robot dropped laundry it could not pick up again. TIME also reported that Figure 03 was finished only in late September 2025 and would not be ready for domestic use at launch. Figure's chief executive, Brett Adcock, told TIME he hoped the robot could do most household jobs autonomously during 2026, while saying the company was not there yet. On the evidence published by the end of October 2026, that goal has been partly shown in tests, not delivered to customers.

The company also told TIME it plans to detect and blur personal information in data recorded in homes. That is relevant because the robot is a mobile platform with many cameras.

What this means for event organisers

• Treat Figure 03 as a development platform, not a hire option. Figure lists no price, and its published deliveries are for internal and research use. Check which humanoid robots you can actually hire today before you design an activation around one.
• Read demo videos carefully. Look for whether a task was autonomous or teleoperated, how long it ran and whether failures are disclosed. Our guide to teleoperated versus autonomous robots explains what audiences actually see, and our review of Tesla Optimus V3 claims applies the same approach to another manufacturer.
• Check runtime and charging against what has been shown. A manufacturer's runtime figure is not a guarantee for a crowded show floor. Plan using battery life and charging during long events.
• Plan for cameras early. Robots with many cameras raise privacy questions in public spaces. See cameras, microphones and visitor privacy.
• Brief suppliers on outcomes, not models. If you want a humanoid now, send one brief to suppliers that describes the task, the venue and the audience, and let them propose robots that are available.

Frequently asked questions

What are the official specifications of Figure 03?

Figure's product page lists Figure 03 at 5 ft 8 in tall, 61 kg, with a 20 kg payload, five hours of runtime and a walking speed of 1.2 m/s, and it is electrically powered. These are the manufacturer's figures and have not been independently measured. TIME's launch report described the robot as 5 ft 6 in, so the published height figures differ slightly.

What is new in Figure 03 compared with Figure 02?

According to Figure, the main changes are redesigned hands with softer fingertips and tactile sensors sensitive to about three grams, cameras in the palms, a faster camera system with a wider field of view, 2 kW wireless charging through the feet, and a UN38.3-certified battery. Figure also lists washable textile covers, a louder speaker, faster actuators and a body 9% lighter than Figure 02.

Has Figure 03 been shown working autonomously in real homes?

Figure has published footage and results from its own tests. In September 2026 it reported that Figure 03 completed tidying, towel-folding and bed-making tasks in 30 unfamiliar Bay Area homes with a 56% success rate, counting only fully completed tasks. Figure says the results do not mean general humanoid robotics is solved, and they have not been independently replicated.

Can event organisers hire a Figure 03 robot?

Figure has not published a price or a public sales or rental programme. Its April 2026 production update says delivered units went to internal research, data collection and development of household and commercial uses. Organisers who need a humanoid for an event should brief suppliers on the task and venue, and ask which robots are actually available for those dates.

How this article was made: written by the humanoid4rent editorial team with AI assistance; every factual statement was checked against the sources listed below on 2026-10-31. Spotted an error? Write to info@humanoid4rent.com.