Figure 03 walking demo at Fremont — third-generation humanoid completes warehouse pick-and-place sequence with onboard inference, BMW production-deployment timeline confirmed for Q4 2026
Figure AI demonstrated Figure 03 at its Fremont facility on May 28 — the third-generation humanoid completed a warehouse pick-and-place sequence using onboard inference, with no tether or remote-compute dependence. BMW's production-deployment timeline for Figure 03 in the Spartanburg plant is confirmed for Q4 2026, marking the first OEM-confirmed humanoid production-deployment timeline at scale.
The onboard-inference milestone is the substantive piece. Figure 02 — the prior generation — required tether or low-latency remote-compute connection for the heaviest portions of the perception-and-planning workload. Figure 03 ships with onboard inference sufficient for the full warehouse pick-and-place workload, removing the tether dependence and broadening the deployment surface to environments without low-latency network connectivity. The hardware architecture combines a custom inference accelerator (Figure has not disclosed the specific supplier but the spec sheet suggests a quantized-transformer-optimized design in the 100W envelope) with the perception-and-control stack the company has iterated through the prior generations.
The BMW deployment confirmation is the commercial-shape piece. Figure and BMW announced their partnership in early 2024; Figure 02 deployed at Spartanburg in limited duty through 2025. The Q4 2026 production-deployment timeline for Figure 03 — meaning the humanoid is in production-line duty, not pilot deployment — is the first OEM-confirmed humanoid production-deployment timeline at scale, and the commercial validation point that the broader humanoid-robotics segment has been waiting for. 1X's Neo home-pilot rollout to 200 households the same week is the parallel deployment milestone on the consumer-segment side. The two together mark the operational deployment phase of the humanoid trajectory.
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