Brett Adcock

21 statements across 2 episodes · 11 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 30, 2026 by Brett Adcock · across every show →

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Apr 30, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Brett Adcock says he terminated Figure's AI collaboration agreement with OpenAI
“And so I fired him.”
Brett Adcock Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 17:38 The $10 Trillion Bet on Humanoid Robots | Figure Founder Brett Adcock · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 30, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Jeff Bezos is a major investor in Figure, says Adcock
“Jeff Bezos, which is a big investor for us at Figure and, you know, I get to basically have access to and talk with.”
Brett Adcock Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 24:40 The $10 Trillion Bet on Humanoid Robots | Figure Founder Brett Adcock · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 30, 2026
Disclosure
Adcock: Eliminating casual socializing allows total focus on family and companies
“I decided, like, five years ago to, like, stop doing like the annual golf trip and stop doing like this person's in town. I haven't seen in 10 years. We need to go out to dinner. I just don't do that anymore. I spend all my time with family or my companies. Th…”
Brett Adcock Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 19:54 The $10 Trillion Bet on Humanoid Robots | Figure Founder Brett Adcock · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 30, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adcock: Figure hit $1M monthly burn and 40 staff within five months
“I self-funded the whole company up front. We got to, you know, we got to a million a month of burn in four months. It was like a no joke. We got the 40 person team in four or five months.”
Brett Adcock Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 7:51 The $10 Trillion Bet on Humanoid Robots | Figure Founder Brett Adcock · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 30, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Adcock: No humanoid robot has demonstrated 7-10 failure-free autonomous hours daily
“I want to be able to put a robot into a home and be able to do, like, seven to 10 hours of work successfully without failures, with, like, to know, like, with no human intervention and do that every day forever. It's just, like, a hard problem. Nobody's ever s…”
Brett Adcock Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 27:30 The $10 Trillion Bet on Humanoid Robots | Figure Founder Brett Adcock · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 30, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Adcock: Figure will build thousands of robots this year, has parts in-house
“We'll make thousands of robots Over the, like here, like basically as fast as we can this year. So we're ramping Bocu, like, lines up as fast as we can. We had record production in March, and we're gonna try to three X that by May, and we'll build thousands of…”
Brett Adcock Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 4:13 The $10 Trillion Bet on Humanoid Robots | Figure Founder Brett Adcock · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 30, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Adcock: Figure is probably a few years ahead of all global competitors
“We think we're probably at this point a few years ahead of every big, everybody globally doing this.”
Brett Adcock Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 3:24 The $10 Trillion Bet on Humanoid Robots | Figure Founder Brett Adcock · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 30, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Figure caught an unauthorized drone peering into its headquarters
“One day we're like looking up and we're like it was in this office. And we look at the corner of the window at the top, there's like a drone sitting there looking in the office, like right over here.”
Brett Adcock Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 18:44 The $10 Trillion Bet on Humanoid Robots | Figure Founder Brett Adcock · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 1, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Adcock: Figure robots run Helix AI inference onboard without network connectivity
“We run Helix on board. So they're actually loaded into GPUs on board and memory, and we run inference on board. Meaning if we if we lose internet connection, we can still do housework and logistics.”
Brett Adcock May 1, 2026 ▶ 22:47 Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 1, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adcock: Figure has 500 total employees, 250-300 at HQ
“There's about 253 hundred people here, and we have 500 in the company.”
Brett Adcock May 1, 2026 ▶ 4:11 Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 1, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Adcock: AGI might be achieved first in humanoid robotic embodiments
“So in some way I think we'll get to at or even beyond human level intelligence in these systems. It actually might be the case that we get to artificial general intelligence first in these embodiments.”
Brett Adcock May 1, 2026 ▶ 46:22 Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 1, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Adcock: Figure's humanoid robot weighs around 135 pounds
“Yeah, it's like a 135 pounds”
Brett Adcock May 1, 2026 ▶ 14:39 Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adcock: Figure demonstration robots run purely autonomously with onboard Helix AI
“This is not tele-operated. For sure not tele-operated. No secret room. these robots are running purely autonomously from an onboard AI policy called Helix running onboard the robot in the torso.”
Brett Adcock May 1, 2026 ▶ 30:34 Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 1, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Adcock: Project Vulcan prevents Figure robots from falling during leg joint failures
“We've been working on a project we call Vulcan here internally. That basically allows us to lose a single or even multiple joints in the legs and still not fall.”
Brett Adcock May 1, 2026 ▶ 23:50 Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 1, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Adcock: Figure Helix AI trained on under one million hours of data
“We've probably had in Helix, like the, like, in, like, kind of base, pre, and mid-training Helix models that we're working on now have maybe, like, maybe, like, a little under a million hours of total data. And then we also do from mid-training and pre-trainin…”
Brett Adcock May 1, 2026 ▶ 29:56 Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 1, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adcock: Figure in-house designed all motors and actuators for Gen-1 hand
“So our first-generation hand, you can see here, is a tendon-driven hand. We designed all the motors and actuators here ourselves even the gearboxes.”
Brett Adcock May 1, 2026 ▶ 1:03:43 Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adcock: Figure's robot hardware is robust; most failures are software and AI
“We're at a point where the hardware's gotten, like, pretty, like, almost, like, very robust. Like, the, we can run them all day, every day, like we still, we see, we still see, like, hardware failures, but It's very few and far between. Most of our problems no…”
Brett Adcock May 1, 2026 ▶ 12:31 Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 1, 2026 positive
Insight
Adcock: Real-world interaction data is the missing piece to true AGI
“Because we're able to, like, this interaction data of, like, touching the world and seeing what happens through trial and error is, like it basically most of human intelligence is built this way, and I think this is, like, the last missing piece to get the tru…”
Brett Adcock May 1, 2026 ▶ 46:35 Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 1, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Adcock: Figure robots dock at 10-15% battery and swap within 30 seconds
“We dock it, like, yeah, around 10 to 15%, they'll go to dock, and then if we need another robot in, we'll sub them in off the dock, and you'll see here later, you know, like, logistics and other use cases that need, like, constant, like, 24 seven attention, th…”
Brett Adcock May 1, 2026 ▶ 10:22 Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Adcock: Figure's humanoid has over 40 moving joints and in-house supply chain
“Like the robot has 40 plus moving joints. It's like a walking cell phone, self-driving car. All the supply chain is basically new. We've designed almost all of it.”
Brett Adcock May 1, 2026 ▶ 9:40 Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 1, 2026 bullish
Assertion Open · timeframe May 2029
Adcock: Figure's next-generation hand has as many joints as a human hand
“We recently unveiled our high degree of freedom hand as a teaser, our next generation hand about a month ago. And this hand has basically a human level dexterity, like as many joints in the hand as a human.”
Brett Adcock May 1, 2026 ▶ 1:05:44 Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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