What is Figure 03?

What Figure 03 actually is

Figure 03 is the third-generation humanoid robot from Figure AI, the US humanoid maker headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The robot is a bipedal humanoid platform with dexterous manipulation, designed for warehouse and manufacturing tasks in customer facilities. It is the successor to Figure 02 (the generation that produced BMW Spartanburg's 11-month chassis-assembly deployment over 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles).

For the broader question of whether Figure AI is American or Chinese (a frequent point of confusion in the humanoid category), see is Figure AI a Chinese company. The short answer is American.

Physical specifications

Per Figure 03's canonical registry record, the verified specifications are:

• Height: 173 cm (approximately 5'8")
• Mass: 61 kg
• Form factor: Bipedal humanoid
• AI system: Helix VLA (vision-language-action) model
• Notable features: soft textile exterior, tactile sensing hands, wireless foot charging
• Maturity stage: Pilot
• Lifecycle state: Active
• Manufacturer: Figure AI's BotQ facility (the company's vertically integrated humanoid manufacturing line)

Payload capacity is not yet published in the registry record. The textile-covered exterior + wireless foot charging are design choices distinguishing Figure 03 from prior generations + competitive humanoids (most of which ship hard-shell exteriors and wired charging).

Where Figure 03 is deployed

As of mid-2026, Figure 03 has one confirmed customer deployment: the Catalyst Brands Reno Distribution Logistics Center, announced through Figure's May 2026 partnership signal. The deployment is in pilot stage; throughput data, multi-customer expansion, and contractual scope have not been published at the same depth as Figure 02's BMW Spartanburg deployment (which produced verified end-product OEM acceptance data over an 11-month period).

The deployment progression from Figure 02 (BMW automotive assembly) to Figure 03 (Catalyst Brands logistics) reflects Figure's commercial strategy: enterprise customer base + multi-vertical deployment + generation-to-generation hardware upgrade. The verified-vs-claimed framework reads the Catalyst Brands deployment as pilot-state-verified; whether it reaches the OEM-acceptance scale of Figure 02 at BMW Spartanburg is a forward question, not a current state.

Can you buy a Figure 03?

No, not as of mid-2026. Figure does not sell humanoids through consumer channels. The deployment model is enterprise contracts with Fortune-500 customers (Figure 02: BMW; Figure 03: Catalyst Brands). Pricing is not publicly disclosed; industry-analyst estimates place enterprise humanoid pricing in the $50,000 to $250,000 range, but Figure has not published per-unit pricing.

If you're researching humanoid purchase options, the consumer-direct paths in the market are different products: 1X NEO at $20,000 outright or $499/month subscription (with teleoperation bridging the autonomy gap, per how DEPLOY evaluates capability claims), and Unitree's research-platform pricing at $5,900 to $16,000. Figure 03 is not in that consumer category.

What DEPLOY's framework says about Figure 03

Applying DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed framework to Figure 03:

• Company verified: Figure AI is a verifiable US company with American institutional context.
• Product verified: Figure 03 is a real shipped humanoid platform; the registry has direct sources for the model entity.
• Deployment verified at single-customer pilot: Catalyst Brands Reno is the canonical anchor; multi-customer scale has not yet been demonstrated.
• Consumer availability not verified: no consumer commerce surface; enterprise contracts only.
• Capability claims partially verified: warehouse-task suitability + dexterous manipulation are demonstrated; broader general-purpose capability claims attach editorial accountability that subsequent deployments will be measured against.

Compared to the competitive set: Apptronik Apollo operates enterprise breadth (Mercedes-Benz + GXO + Jabil pilots); Agility Robotics Digit operates single-customer depth (GXO Flowery Branch with 100,000-tote verified throughput); Tesla Optimus operates trajectory-claim positioning with no commercial deployment.

Where to go next

For consumer evaluation context including pricing posture and availability state, see Figure 03's consumer pricing page and the Figure 03 consumer overview. For canonical institutional depth at the registry layer (sources, deployments, capability claims, key facts), see Figure AI's registry record and the Figure 03 model entity. For the framework DEPLOY applies to capability claims across humanoid makers, see how DEPLOY verifies capability claims.