Figure introduced Figure 03 on Thursday, its third-generation humanoid and the first the company says was engineered from the ground up to be manufactured in volume rather than assembled as a prototype. The robot is built around Helix, Figure’s vision-language-action model, and the hardware changes reflect what the company says that model needs to see and touch.

The head carries a new camera architecture with twice the frame rate, one-quarter the latency and a 60 percent wider field of view per camera than Figure 02, plus expanded depth of field. Each palm now holds a wide-angle camera for close-range feedback when the main cameras are occluded, and Figure’s in-house fingertip tactile sensors can register forces as light as three grams.

For the home, Figure has covered the robot in washable soft textiles and multi-density foam, cut its mass by 9 percent, added a speaker twice the size and nearly four times as powerful as Figure 02’s, and given it inductive charging coils in the feet that draw 2 kW from a stand. The battery is certified to the UN38.3 standard.

At BotQ, Figure’s own plant, the first-generation manufacturing line is rated for up to 12,000 robots a year, with a goal of 100,000 over four years.