Brett Adcock

Founder and CEO of Figure AI, the humanoid robotics company most aggressive in marketing humanoids as direct labor replacements. Figure 02 has supported…

Founder & CEO · Figure AI

Founder and CEO of Figure AI, the humanoid robotics company most aggressive in marketing humanoids as direct labor replacements. Figure 02 has supported production of 30,000+ vehicles at BMW Spartanburg and is expanding to BMW Plant Leipzig. Figure 03 is now in active demos. Figure raised $1B+ at a reported $39B valuation. Adcock is publicly targeting scaling from "thousands of units this year to 1 million per year" (April 30, 2026). One of the most quotable executives on the humanoid replacement timeline.

Notable quotes

  • "We just want humanoid robots to work, they're working now & it's pretty simple.. we're seeing robots do everyday things like clean up a living room, do commercial work." — Sourcery interview, 2026-04-30
  • "I'm watching AI in a human body do human work — and it's early." — Shawn Ryan Show, late March 2026
  • "I think you'll see some of the most transformative events in technology happen over the next 36 months that we've ever seen — ever." — Shawn Ryan Show, late March 2026
  • "We were just way better at this, so I fired them." — Shawn Ryan Show, on ending Figure's OpenAI partnership. Industrial / corporate-partnership language, NOT a labor-firing quote — usage caveat: the phrase reads as "fired worker" parallel out of context, but the referent is OpenAI as a vendor. Frame carefully.
  • "We already do this every day." — X reply to Scott Walter / RoboStrategy challenge on 8-hour autonomous-shift claim, 2026-05-12
  • "Texting the film crew, livestream tomorrow." — X quote-tweet of *We'll do it live* meme committing to live demonstration, 2026-05-12. See 2026-05-12-figure-walter-livestream-challenge.
  • "Few interesting details around the F.03 livestream: > We previously showed this task running for 1 hour. Today we're pushing for 8 hours straight. High odds something breaks > The use case is small package sorting. F.03 must detect the barcode, pick up the package, and reorient" — X, 2026-05-13 (primary source verified). Confirms in his own words that the demo is the same package-sorting task scaled from 1 hour to 8. See 2026-05-13-figure-03-8hour-livestream.
  • "uncharted territory" — describing the extended livestream run that crossed 24h toward ~30h; per his account the goal was 8h but "zero failures" prompted the team to keep going. Reported via Interesting Engineering, 2026-05-14 (NOT primary-verified — verify against X feed). See 2026-05-14-figure-03-extended-autonomous-run. His May 13 "high odds something breaks" prediction now reads as disproven by the run itself.

First seen: 2026-04-30 · Last seen: 2026-05-26 · 13 mentions