Meet Figure AI: The company behind the humanoid robot hosted by Melania Trump
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The White House hosted Figure AI's third-generation humanoid, Figure 3, which first lady Melania Trump introduced at a summit on technology and children's education. Figure 3 greeted attendees in multiple languages, and the first lady framed the appearance as an argument for using AI in children's education while the company says the robots also serve commercial and household tasks. Figure AI, founded in 2022 by Brett Adcock, powers its robots with an in-house Helix AI vision-language-action system and raised more than $1 billion in a Series C that valued the firm at $39 billion. The company already works with BMW on manufacturing deployments but faces a pending lawsuit alleging safety problems that Figure AI disputes.
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