Adcock: Deep Learning Transfers From Logistics Tasks to Folding Laundry
Brett Adcock · Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath · Nov 5, 2025 · at 36:11
Brett Adcock, founder of Figure AI, explains how centralized fleet data training results in cross-task skill improvement across Figure's robots.
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“We are taking data from all the robots, and we are consulting that out to, like, our servers here at Figure, and we're training on that. And what we're seeing now is we're seeing, like, incredible transfer from other robot data that's helping the current robot do better. Which is, like, which is unbelievable. Like, moving packages on, like, logistics line is somehow helping us fold laundry. It's like, the numbers get better.”
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