Adcock: Figure will ship humanoids onto its production line this year
Brett Adcock · Figure's First Full HQ Tour: From the Lab to the Factory Floor · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · May 1, 2026 · at 45:26
Brett Adcock discusses automating Figure's factory assembly lines during a tour of the BotQ facility.
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“We're, we will be shipping robots, human, our humanoid robots into the production lines here this year”
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