🤖 Factory robots retire — and they look like they earned it
Figure AI just “retired” its Figure 02 bots after 11 months on BMW’s production line. They built 30K+ X3s, moved 90Kmetal parts, and now look like battle-worn workers — scratched, dusty, and nothing like showroom prototypes. 💥
Training took months; by month ten they handled 10-hour shifts solo. Precision job: place metal sheets with 5 mm tolerance. One cycle — 84s, sheet placement — 37s, accuracy 99%+. Total: 1250 hours of real labor.
The weak spot? The forearm — too many moving parts, wires, and cooling crammed into human-sized space. Constant motion killed microcontrollers. The new Figure 03 fixes it with direct motor-to-brain wiring and no wrist circuitry.
Turns out robots can grind — they just don’t complain.