Brett Adcock

Peter Diamandis × Dave Blundin × Brett Adcock

Figure’s Helix 2 removes the remaining 109,000 lines of C++ for an end-to-end neural stack coordinating more than 40 degrees of freedom, shifting the moat toward fleet data and positive transfer.One reported error across 67 hours of package work and a 2026 plan to deploy robots on its own production lines support the model, but unseen homes, multi-day autonomy and safety around children remain decisive commercialization gates.

Vinod Khosla × Brett Adcock × Peter Diamandis

Figure’s humanoid strategy depends on one general-purpose platform serving most human work, reducing customization and maintenance costs while targeting “twenty thousand dollar levels” and 100,000 units.Indoor workforce deployments are expected first, but homes, farms, and space follow unevenly; security, FDA approval, and distribution remain constraints even as Khosla forecasts AI making scientific research 10–100x more abundant within five years.

Peter Diamandis × Brett Adcock

Figure’s BMW deployment moves humanoids beyond prototypes: robots autonomously place sheet metal, while Figure 01’s cycle reportedly fell from four minutes to 40 seconds.Helix used about 500 hours of data to let two robots follow an English instruction and put away groceries withheld from training, indicating speech-directed generalization.Home alpha testing begins this year, but changing layouts, semantic hazards, data scale, and safety keep household autonomy conditional.