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Figure / Humanoid Robotics

Embodied AI / robot-foundation-model frontier

Figure, along with Tesla Optimus, Nvidia GR00T, and Physical Intelligence, is racing to build robot foundation models for humanoid labor, the next demand frontier for compute and real-world data. Embodiment extends the AI value chain into manufacturing, logistics, and physical actuation supply chains.

Valuation

~$39B (2025)

Category

Humanoid / VLA

How it fits the stack

Figure / Humanoid Robotics with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.

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Figure / Humanoid RoboticsDepends on ↑

Figure / Humanoid Robotics in the AI stack. Figure / Humanoid Robotics with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.

Graph data (text) — 4 entities, 3 relationships
  • Figure / Humanoid RoboticsusesGoogle DeepMind
  • Figure / Humanoid Roboticsdepends onNvidia Data-Center GPU (Blackwell/Rubin)
  • Figure / Humanoid Roboticsdepends onNvidia Research