TL;DR: Humanoids have left the lab. Figure AI just revealed their assembly line pumps out a new robot every 90 minutes.
We are officially past the science project phase for humanoid robots. Figure AI just casually mentioned on the Shawn Ryan Show that their assembly line is spitting out a complete robot every hour and a half. That is a massive leap for the industry.
The stats on this machine are solid. It stands 5’6″, weighs 135 pounds, and runs for up to five hours per charge. When the battery gets low, it just steps onto an inductive pad and pulls in two kilowatts of power wirelessly. An hour later, it is ready to go back to work. You don’t need to write custom code for it either. Every movement is driven by their Helix neural network.
What happens when one of them falls over? A company rep was brutally honest about it. Sometimes they break necks. Sometimes they survive just fine. But with a production rate of one robot every 90 minutes, replacing broken hardware isn’t the bottleneck it used to be. They want to hit a million units a year within a decade. It looks like they are actually on track to do it.