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Figure Ran Its Robot 81 Hours for 3 Million Viewers
One Figure 03 ran 81 hours and sorted 101,391 packages. BMW, the only named commercial customer, used a different vendor's robot for its European expansion.
One Figure 03 humanoid sorted 101,391 packages in 81 consecutive hours at Figure AI's warehouse, livestreamed this month to 3 million viewers on YouTube and X. The robot, nicknamed Jim, processed one package every three to four seconds: barcode scan, rotation, conveyor placement, with no human intervention.
Jim's run capped three months of production doubling at Figure's BotQ factory. The facility shipped 60 units in February, 120 in March, and 240 in April. More than 80% clear end-of-line inspection on the first attempt.
The Only Named Customer Chose a Different Vendor
Figure's only publicly named commercial customer is BMW, which ran Figure 02 at its Spartanburg, South Carolina plant for 11 months. A Fortune investigation found that CEO Brett Adcock's description of "a fleet of robots" running "end-to-end operations" applied to a single robot retrieving metal parts during non-production hours.
Figure retired F.02 when it launched F.03, framing the transition as a planned upgrade. BMW's next humanoid pilot, at Plant Leipzig in Germany, uses Hexagon Robotics' AEON, not Figure 03. BMW and Figure say they are evaluating F.03 for additional deployments; no contract has been signed.
The 350-plus shipped units go to internal research, data collection, and "commercial use-case development." Figure prices the service at roughly $1,000 per robot per month, a Robot-as-a-Service structure with hardware, software updates, and maintenance bundled rather than sold separately.
BMW's choice of Hexagon's AEON for Leipzig closes off what had been the clearest path to a named anchor customer. BotQ is designed to produce 12,000 units a year; no logistics company has publicly committed to receive them.
At $1,000 per robot per month and a 100,000-unit four-year target, full deployment implies $1.2 billion in annual recurring revenue. The current rate, with no named F.03 commercial customer, sits in the low tens of millions. A signed logistics contract before Q3 2026 is the first number that changes the math.