Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Figure for the week ending July 31, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview.
Category Cover Image Prompt: Cinematic 1980s neo-noir movie poster of a faceless humanoid robot standing beside an idling 1973 matte primer gray Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu on wet Los Angeles asphalt at night, its chrome hand extending car keys toward the viewer while a distant magenta neon scorpion sign reflects in its blank visor, lit by sodium-vapor amber streetlights with deep teal shadows, 35mm anamorphic grain and soft halation, with the title Figure scrawled in hot magenta-pink handwritten brush script in the upper third.
This Week in Figure News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
Most of this category's links come from Figure CEO Brett Adcock, and they show the company's humanoid robots moving from demos to daily presence. He posted that Figure robots now have visitor passes with full access to every door on campus, and that hundreds could soon be walking around. He also said the team built him a leg lamp to celebrate manufacturing the 1,000th F.03 robot. Another post of his shared a hardware engineering image, noting that hardware is hard partly because a dozen engineering teams often have conflicting requirements.
A separate post, from Ilir Aliu, summed up Figure's time at a BMW plant: eleven months with Figure 02 in Spartanburg, 30,000 vehicles, 90,000 parts and 1.2 million steps. He noted that no production figure had been confirmed.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Figure
chatgpt work is remarkable, and “work” undersells it. from my phone i sent: “use all my chat history to figure out ideas for a long weekend trip with 8 friends, plan the best three options, make a full-stack site where the 9 of us can coordinate on what we would want to do in”
https://x.com/sama/status/2081396796174282900
“Would you ever put a humanoid in a car to drive it?””
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2082844202229272800
As a joke I prompted Codex “Build and run BenchBench, a benchmark of now good ai is at creating benchmarks. then figure out what benchbenchbench is and run that. and then write benchbenchbench up as a good arXiv paper.” I got a PDF. But the paper is actually kind of interesting?”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2080676187752280532
My favorite hardware engineering image! What makes hardware so difficult, besides high capital costs & long hardware lead times, is that there are a dozen individual engineering teams with often conflicting requirements. You fix this with great systems engineering design 🫠”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2082207484891312176
The Kimi K3 architecture figure for yesterday’s big open-weight model release, along with some observations and thoughts. 1. Yes, it looks relatively complicated, but it’s essentially a scaled-up production version of their Kimi Linear model they released last year (scaled up”
https://x.com/rasbt/status/2082098201247600765
so excited for this. very close to models that will significantly accelerate scientific discovery; the best way to do this is for us to empower scientists, not to try to figure out everything ourselves. we all deserve the benefits.”
https://x.com/sama/status/2082628413769003269
Figure robots now have visitor passes! They have full access to every door on campus. Soon there will be hundreds of them walking around campus, just coming and going”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2081776638455648498
In celebration of manufacturing our 1,000th F.03 robot, the team built me a leg lamp 😂 It’s a major award!”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2082558216135950458
Weekly Deployment Breakdown #1: – Figure & BMW – 📌 PLUS: Those six numbers belong in your pilot. Eleven months as a humanoid in a real BMW plant. 30,000 vehicles, 90,000 parts, 1.2 million steps. And not a single confirmed production figure… Figure 02 ran in Spartanburg”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2081671998065774610
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