- Figure 03 Redesigns the Humanoid Robot for Home
- It has articulated hands that even include cameras and can wash and fold laundry
- There is no timeline for the availability of the introduction of home
When I look at Figure 03 clean, fold laundry, fill a dishwasher, serve and play with the family dog, I was struck by the still creepy blend of human -like activity and basic inhumanity. It is the mixture that makes this moment so central. We are on the precipitate of a humanoid robot revolution, and Figure AI can lead the slightly inconsistent, unstable way.
Figure AI revealed its latest robot update Thursday (October 9) with a long video and a term as one of Time Magazine’s Best innovations from 2025. They have Figure 03 on the front, which I think the Seller Seller the robot’s potential for home use and even Time Admits, “Figure 03 will not be ready for home use at the time of release.”
Look at
It is not that Figure AI has not made significant progress on its five-foot six-inch vending machine. The ally electric figure 03 looks and works differently than its predecessor, Figure 02, which was introduced just over a year ago.
Much of Figure 03’s improvements are specifically designed for better, safer home use. Even the appearance of it is softer and less misplaced in a household setting; Almost the whole body is now covered with a soft mesh fabric.
The fully articulated hands are also fabric -covered and even include palm cameras that give each hand a wide -angle image of its goal and activities (there is also a camera in the head). The fingertips are also softer, with each finger with the company’s new tactile sensor. These features probably account for Figure 03’s ability, as shown in the video, to collect plates from a table and then carefully sweep the garbage with one hand while catching it with the other.
These new hands and cameras probably make it possible for Figure 03 to effectively if it is awkward, fold a shirt as well as slowly rinse dishes and place them in the dishwasher. Its body looks human, but for some tasks it is often half curled in ways that would cause most people to serious back problems. For everything we know, the algorithms might say that this is the best way for Figure 03 to work.
Figure AI made the new robot with 9% smaller mass for better homemakability. In the video we see it walking away from its wireless charging station (it is rated for five hours of operation per charging) and then navigating what I would describe as an expansive, open plan (good luck, for example in my messy home). There is also some more foam in the robotic joints to avoid squeezing human fingers.
I notice how carefully the robot moves in the home video. It is slow (2.6 km / h) and a little plodding. Maybe this is by design and for security. In the factory part of the video, it seems that Figure 03 works much faster.
An AI -back
While Figure AI did not demonstrate this in the video, Figure 03’s rapid development is partly propelled by generative AI and it has a “Vision-Language-Action AI” according to the company. It uses Openai models and Nvidia’s robotic stacks to help it understand spoken commands and the world around it. It’s hard to imagine Figure 03’s rapid increase to a nearby robotic helper without the current generative AI revolution.
There are still several questions about Figure 03. Figure AI has not offered any timeline for the delivery of the home. In fact, it is likely that Figure 03 will first arrive at the factory. Pricing in any market is a questioner, though you should expect it to be in tens of thousands of dollars.
Figure AI is facing fierce competition from Tesla Optimus, Unitree G1 and Boston Dynamics Atlas, among others. Still, none of them are everywhere near being in the home.
As Figure AI admitted last year when the first revealed Figure 01, “we face high risk and extremely low chances of success.” It can be said for the entire Humanoid Robotics industry, at least in the short term.
In the long term, however, there is an increasingly good chance that future generations will consider robotic assistants such as Figure 03 the norm, even though we still find them creepy as hell.
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