Figure AI, startup developing humanoid robots, is talking to Microsoft and OpenAI to raise $500 million in new funding at a valuation of over $2 billion.
Figure AI just made a deal with BMW to put the humanoid robots into the car factory for pilot tests over the next 12-24 months.
Figure AI has performed end to end neural net AI controlled tasks like operating a coffee machine.
The Figure AI CEO, Brett Adcock, sees a future with 10 billion humanoid bots.
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Interesting they are approaching Open AI, which is publicly backing a different humanoid company, 1X.