Figure has unveiled the Figure 02, a second-generation humanoid that the AI robotics company hopes to complete jobs in commercial applications and, perhaps someday, households.
The 5-foot-6, 154-pound robot can move at approximately 2.6 miles per hour and includes various technologies, including actuators, sensors, batteries, electronics, artificial intelligence and computer vision.
Figure engineers and designers employed a ground-up hardware and software redesign while building the humanoid. According to the company, Figure 02 features integrated cabling, which enables improved reliability, more compact packaging and concealed wires.
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Figure 02 reportedly offers three times the AI inference and computation capabilities of its predecessor, which enables the fully autonomous performance of real-world AI jobs.
The robot can operate for five hours thanks to its 2.25-kilowatt-hour battery. During this runtime, the humanoid can display its speech-to-speech capabilities, which are made possible by microphones and speakers connected to AI models. Furthermore, the six RGB cameras support Figure 02’s vision language model to enhance fast common-sense visual reasoning.
The company also highlighted the humanoid’s hands, which offer 16 degrees of freedom and strength comparable to that of a human.
Additional features include shoulder joints with a 148-degree range of motion and 50 newton-meters of torque, knee joints with a 135-degree range and 150 newton-meters of torque and hip joints with a 195-degree range and 150 newton-meters of torque.
The company partnered with BMW to see how Figure 02 would handle a factory setting. During the test period, the robot inserted sheet metal parts into fixtures, which were then assembled as part of the chassis.
Milan Nedeljković, a Member of the Board of Management for Production at BMW AG, notes that the company will next determine possible applications for humanoid robots in production, saying “The developments in the field of robotics are very promising."
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