Figure's F.03 completes 30+ hour autonomous run in factory test

Figure said on May 16 that its Figure 03 humanoids had passed 30 hours of continuous autonomous work in a factory-style package-sorting test, extending what the company had initially framed as an eight-hour run. The California robotics startup used three robots in the demonstration and said the system operated without human teleoperation. The test followed an April 29 manufacturing update in which Figure said it had delivered more than 350 third-generation robots from its BotQ plant in Sunnyvale, California, and raised output to one unit per hour. Together, the two disclosures put runtime and factory throughput at the center of Figure’s latest push to show that its robots can be built in volume and kept working for long stretches. ### How long did the robots actually run, and what were they doing? Figure’s latest public test ran for more than 30 hours, according to reports published on May 14 and May 16 that described the company’s livestream of three Figure 03 robots sorting small packages on conveyors. The earlier company target had been an eight-hour autonomous run, and the livestream continued past that mark into a multi-day endurance test. (humanoidsdaily.com) Three robots handled package-sorting work that Figure has been using as a benchmark logistics task since 2025. In a June 7, 2025 update, Figure said Helix had improved package-handling speed to 4.05 seconds per package and oriented labels correctly for scanning about 95% of the time in that logistics setting. ### What software was running the test? Figure’s January 27, 2026 product update said Helix 02 is its “full-body autonomy” system, combining walking, manipulation and balance under a single neural control stack. (humanoidsdaily.com) The company said Helix 02 connects onboard sensors including vision, touch and proprioception to the robot’s actuators and is paired with System 0, a learned whole-body controller trained on more than 1,000 hours of human motion data and reinforcement learning. (figure.ai) Figure linked the production ramp directly to autonomy development in its April 29 manufacturing post. The company said a larger installed fleet creates more data for “next-generation autonomous capabilities” and said robots shipped from BotQ were being allocated to internal research, data collection, housework efforts and commercial-use-case development. (figure.ai) ### What does the manufacturing side look like now? April 29 was the date Figure said BotQ had delivered more than 350 Figure 03 robots and increased production from one robot per day to one per hour in less than 120 days. The company said that represented a 24-fold throughput increase at the Sunnyvale facility. BotQ’s first-generation line was introduced on March 15, 2025 with a stated capacity of up to 12,000 humanoids per year. (figure.ai) Figure said at the time that Figure 03 was designed as its production robot and that the company had shifted from prototype-oriented machining toward higher-volume processes such as injection molding, die casting, metal injection molding and stamping. An 80% end-of-line first-pass yield was one of the clearest manufacturing numbers in the April 29 update. (figure.ai) Figure also said its battery line had reached 99.3% first-pass yield, shipped more than 500 battery packs and produced more than 9,000 actuators across more than 10 stock-keeping units, with more than 50 in-process inspections and over 80 functional verification tests before sign-off. (figure.ai) ### How does the battery claim fit with a 30-hour run? Figure’s July 17, 2025 battery post said the Figure 03 battery provides 2.3 kilowatt-hours and about five hours of runtime at peak performance. That specification suggests the 30-hour demonstration would have required battery changes, charging intervals, lower-than-peak power draw, multiple robots sharing work, or some combination of those factors; Figure’s public materials reviewed here do not spell out the exact operating and charging protocol for the endurance run. (figure.ai) The company has not, in the sources reviewed here, published a full postmortem with detailed uptime accounting for each robot in the livestream. Reports on the run said Brett Adcock, Figure’s chief executive, described the autonomy stack and hardware as having zero failures, while outside observers noted handling errors and autonomous resets during the public stream. (figure.ai) ### Where does Figure say the robots go from here? Figure’s October 9, 2025 launch post said Figure 03 was built for Helix, for the home and for mass manufacturing, with lower manufacturing cost and a redesigned sensor and hand system aimed at broader commercial use. The company has since shown Helix 02 doing room-cleaning tasks in homes as well as package sorting in logistics-style environments. (humanoidsdaily.com) March 15, 2025 was also the date Figure said its own humanoids would be used in BotQ manufacturing “this year,” as part of an effort to automate more of the line over time. The next concrete checkpoints the company has already published are the April 29 BotQ production update and the January 27 Helix 02 autonomy release, which remain its main public markers for output and software capability. (figure.ai 1) (figure.ai 2)