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 August 7, 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: A humanoid robot with a matte white shell sits at rest on a mossy bank beside a glassy black pond, knees drawn up and head tilted upward toward a vast field of stars, its still reflection doubling the sky in the mirror-smooth water, thin mist drifting over marsh reeds, deep indigo nocturne in the style of American Tonalism, low horizon with generous starlit sky, painterly realism, bold clean title type across the upper night sky reading Figure.
This Week in Figure News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Hark Handoff: Brett Adcock's new company Hark introduced Handoff, which it describes as an internet-use model for everyday tasks like ordering food, booking flights and shopping. Hark claims it was independently verified as the best of its kind, ahead of ChatGPT 5.4 and Opus 4.8.
- Screen-based approach: Adcock said fewer than 1 in 1,000 websites have a public API, so Hark's software works the human way: it sees the screen and targets exact x and y positions.
- Figure 03 and bipedal legs: Adcock posted that F.03 can now climb a ladder fully autonomously. He and The Humanoid Hub used the clip to argue for bipedal legs, with Adcock calling wheeled robots a dead end.
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
Today we’re introducing Hark Handoff Handoff has been independently verified as the best internet-use model ever built, outperforming ChatGPT 5.4 & Opus 4.8 While others focus on coding, we focus on everyday life: ordering food, booking flights, shopping, & navigating the web”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2085018697312383349
Hark is building a digital humanoid that can navigate the internet like a human”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2085219042701566071
We’re building toward a future where computers use computers for you We started with the internet, where ~75% of global computer use happens – and where fewer than 1 in 1,000 websites have a public API. The only way in is the human way: see the screen, target exact x and y”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2085387227870457961
when you can figure out precisely where every photo was taken in 3d space, it unlocks some pretty cool possibilities”
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2084808973442548085
We’ve been heads down at Hark and tomorrow morning I get to show you something we’re really proud of. See you then”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2084828963298553940
Jensen is back in the house!! Jensen and Nvidia have been phenomenal partners. I’m excited to be working closely together as we massively scale up this year”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2085449061096898674
Introducing Hark Handoff | Hark
https://hark.com/articles/introducing-hark-handoff
F.03 can now climb a ladder, fully autonomous”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2083576071635820660
Figure had to build our own supply chain. There was no off the shelf humanoid parts We own our destiny and now have some crazy hardcore engineers because of this”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2084481032066392202
This is why bipedal legs matter. Humanoids should be able to go anywhere humans can. Figure 03 climbing a ladder.”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2083577979620487524
Wheeled robots are an utter dead end”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2083761520983540180
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