Adcock: Figure 3 faults weekly compared to Figure 1 faulting hourly
Brett Adcock · The $10 Trillion Bet on Humanoid Robots | Figure Founder Brett Adcock · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Apr 30, 2026 · at 28:01
Brett Adcock, founder and CEO of Figure, outlines the hardware reliability gains made across successive generations of Figure humanoid robots.
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“Like we used to run that robot here, figure, figure one, and man, that robot could like run for like an hour and it would like fault. We know all the reasons or it would fall or would like, you know, lose power. And, you know, we moved to figure two. I think we probably, like, maybe we saw that, like, once a day. And now figure three, like, I think, you know, everywhere here, they're all running all, all day. And we'll see faults. We'll see faults every week. Not on every single robot, but we'll see faults.”
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