Figure AI Livestreams Figure 03 Robots Handling Thousands of Packages for 1 Week

7 articles · Updated · Ars Technica · May 22

More than a week after a planned 8-hour test began on May 13, Figure AI’s Figure 03 humanoids were still autonomously scanning bar codes and loading small packages onto a conveyor belt.
The demo was designed to show “long horizon autonomy” without human intervention, using Figure’s Helix 02 neural network and whole-body control system rather than a tightly scripted one-off stunt.
Thousands of boxes, padded envelopes and bags moved through the livestream, which at one point showed a robot competing against a human intern and quickly went viral among tech enthusiasts.
Figure says its controller was trained on 1,000-plus hours of human motion data and simulation across more than 200,000 parallel environments, though the showcase still offers only a narrow view of real-world robot capability.

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