Living with the Figure 02
There is no household life with a Figure 02 to report. The life on record is a weekday shift at BMW Spartanburg, followed by a company decision to retire the fleet once Figure 03 was in service.
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Figure 02
Figure 02 is the humanoid that worked a real BMW line, and the humanoid Figure has since retired. Figure's own account of the Spartanburg deployment lists 10-hour weekday shifts, more than 90,000 parts loaded, 1,250 hours of runtime, and a contribution to 30,000-plus X3 vehicles. Figure then started taking the fleet out of service after Figure 03 arrived. A later company post says most of the robots are gone and a few remain in storage at headquarters. This Figure 02 review is a record of that machine. There is no public price, no order page, and no current path to buy one.
Buyer snapshot
Price Not disclosed
Runtime 2.25 kWh pack
Lifting ability Not published
Home fit Not published
Noise Not disclosed
- A documented factory job
- Hands built for a fixture, not a pose
- A real power and vision spec
- An honest ending
Quick verdict
Figure 02 earned its reputation on a factory floor, not in a shop window. BMW's August 2024 release describes a body-shop trial placing sheet-metal parts into fixtures. Figure's later results post describes an 11-month run with daily shifts, 90,000-plus parts, and 1,250 hours. The August 2024 announcement also specifies a 2.25 kWh torso battery, six RGB cameras, and fourth-generation hands with 16 degrees of freedom each. What Figure does not give is a price, a height, a weight, or a way to order the robot in 2026. The fleet has been retired. Read Figure 02 as the generation that proved a shift at BMW. The current Figure robot on this site is Figure 03.
AT A GLANCE
Figure 02 at a glance
Strengths
- A documented factory job: Figure reports 10-hour weekday shifts at BMW Spartanburg, 90,000-plus parts loaded, 1,250 hours of runtime, and work tied to 30,000-plus X3 vehicles.
- Hands built for a fixture, not a pose: 16 degrees of freedom per hand, and BMW described placement of sheet-metal parts into welding fixtures.
- A real power and vision spec: 2.25 kWh in the torso, six RGB cameras, and three times the onboard compute of Figure 01, all from Figure's own August 2024 announcement.
- An honest ending: Figure has published the retirement, including what failed (the forearm was the top hardware issue) and what the fleet taught the Figure 03 design.
Limitations
- You cannot buy it. There is no MSRP, no store, and Figure has decommissioned the fleet. A few units remain in storage at headquarters.
- Height, weight, payload, walking speed, and noise were not stated in the announcement or the BMW results post. Third-party numbers in circulation are not repeated here.
- The 10-hour shift is a work schedule. Figure does not publish how many of those hours came from the 2.25 kWh pack versus a charge in the middle of the day.
- The forearm was the leading hardware failure at BMW. Figure redesigned the wrist electronics for Figure 03 because of it.
THE HONEST ANSWER
Who it is / isn’t for
Who Figure 02 is best for
- A reader comparing Figure 03 with the generation that actually stood on the BMW line.
- A manufacturer studying what a humanoid shift looked like in 2025: sheet-metal loading, millimetre-scale placement, and a published hour count.
- Anyone who wants the primary-source record in one place, separate from reseller price guesses.
Who Figure 02 is not for
- A household, a lab, or a school trying to purchase a Figure. The purchasable conversation, if Figure opens one, is about a later generation.
- A buyer who needs height, weight, payload, or a landed UK price before making a decision. Those figures are not in Figure's sources used here.
- Anyone treating a retired fleet as a supported product. Spare parts, software, and service for Figure 02 are not a current offer.
Real task fit
Household task notes are included because every robot page on this site uses the same four jobs. Figure 02's evidence is a BMW body shop. The notes say so, instead of stretching a sheet-metal pilot into a kitchen.
Living with the Figure 02
Integration timeline
Figure’s timeline, in the company’s words, runs from first BMW use within six months of bringing the robot up, to a full daily deployment within ten months, across an 11-month engagement. That is an integrator’s calendar, with Figure staff and a car plant, not a weekend unbox. The calendar now ends in retirement.
Unboxing & setup
Figure has described shipping Figure 02 for commercial deployment. There is no consumer unboxing, no published crate size, and no controller-in-the-box story, because there was no public product. A buyer in 2026 does not get a crate. The remaining robots, Figure says, are in storage at headquarters.
Day-to-day dynamics
The documented day is a 10-hour weekday shift loading sheet-metal parts, with placement tolerances Figure describes as about 5 millimetres in a short cycle. Across the deployment Figure counts 1,250-plus hours, 90,000-plus parts, and on the order of 1.2 million steps. That is the daily dynamics worth trusting. Home routines, stairs in a flat, and quiet overnight charging are not part of the record.
Charging rhythm
The pack is a 2.25 kWh custom battery in the torso, which Figure said carried more than 50 percent more energy than the Figure 01 pack. Figure does not publish a charge time or a runtime in hours for that pack. The 10-hour shift is evidence the plant kept the robot in the cell for a full workday. It is not, by itself, a battery-life specification. Figure 03’s later battery post describes a 2.3 kWh pack and a large cost reduction against the Figure 02 pack, which is context, not a Figure 02 runtime.
Friction points
The friction that matters now is availability. Figure has written that maintaining the Figure 02 fleet no longer made sense once Figure 03 grew, and that most of the robots have been destroyed to protect proprietary actuators, with a few left in storage. The friction that mattered on the line was the forearm. Figure names it as the top hardware failure at BMW and describes a wrist redesign for Figure 03 that removed a distribution board and dynamic cabling. A third friction is the number you will see elsewhere. Height, weight, and dollar figures circulate. They are not in the two Figure sources this page relies on, so they are not repeated.
THE NUMBERS
Figure 02 HOSI Score: 6.2 overall
The Humanoid Owner Sentiment Index combines manufacturer specs, public hands-on coverage, and verified owner discussions on Reddit and YouTube into six 1–10 dimensions. Read the full HOSI methodology →
Capability
7.6 /10
1. Capability: 8.2 / 10. Few humanoids have a published count of parts placed on a real car line. Figure 02 does: 90,000-plus parts, millimetre-scale fixture work, 16 degrees of freedom per hand, and a shift structure BMW and Figure both described in public. The score stays short of the top of this site because payload, speed, and a full body specification were never put next to those hours.
Reliability
7.6 /10
2. Reliability: 7.6 / 10. 1,250 hours on an active line, with Figure reporting minimal hardware failures, is a stronger reliability story than a demo reel. The forearm was still the part that failed most often, and Figure changed the architecture because of it. A robot that taught its maker where it broke is credible. A retired robot with no spares channel cannot score like a supported product.
Privacy
6.4 /10
3. Privacy: 6.4 / 10. Six RGB cameras, microphones, and speakers were part of the August 2024 design, tied to onboard vision and speech models. In a body shop that is a workplace sensor. Figure's announcement does not describe retention, on-device limits, or what a factory customer could switch off. The score assumes a camera-and-microphone platform inside a company network, which is a different risk from a robot in a kitchen, and still a risk.
Ease of Use
4.6 /10
4. Ease of Use: 4.6 / 10. Ease of use for a buyer is the wrong frame, and the score says so. Figure 02 arrived through a commercial deployment, not a product page. There is no public setup guide, no listed controller for a customer, and in 2026 no robot to set up. The plant integration was real. The path for a US or UK buyer is closed.
Owner Sentiment
7 /10
5. Owner Sentiment: 7.0 / 10. Public interest has stayed high because the BMW story is concrete and because Figure published the ending, including the retirement, rather than quietly renaming the robot. There are no owners in the consumer sense. Sentiment here is the reputation of the project, not a stack of household reviews.
Apartment Compatibility
3.4 /10
6. Apartment Compatibility: 3.4 / 10. Figure has not published height, weight, or noise. The robot's only documented home is a car plant, and the fleet is retired. Apartment compatibility covers whether a person could live with the machine. On the evidence, they cannot buy it, house it, or service it. The low score is the point of the composite.
Owner sentiment
What owners say about Figure 02
There are no household owners of Figure 02. The notes below are a reading of the public record Figure and BMW published, not customer reviews.
REDDIT 2024 to 2026Public record (2024 to 2026)
“Discussion of Figure 02 centres on the Spartanburg line and, later, on Figure's decision to retire the fleet. It does not centre on anyone living with one.”
YOUTUBE 2025Figure's BMW update (2025)
“The company's own deployment film is the primary view of the robot at work. Treat it as the manufacturer's record of the shift, not as an independent long-term test.”
SPECIFICATIONS
Figure 02 specifications
Metric
Specification
Base Price
Not disclosed. Figure has not published an MSRP, and the robot is no longer offered.
Runtime
2.25 kWh torso pack. Endurance in hours is not published as its own figure.
Arm Payload
Not published
Physical Dimensions
Height, width, and depth are not in Figure's 2024 announcement or the BMW results post.
Weight
Not published
Acoustic Footprint
Not disclosed
Hands
16 degrees of freedom per hand, described by Figure as human-equivalent strength
Cameras
6 RGB cameras
Compute
3x the onboard computation and AI inference of the previous generation, per the August 2024 announcement
Status
Retired. Figure says most of the fleet is gone and a few robots remain in storage at headquarters.
Spec source
Figure announcement, 6 August 2024, and https://www.figure.ai/news/production-at-bmw
Kinematics
1. Kinematics & Actuation StructureHand Articulation: 16 degrees of freedom per hand. Figure called the strength human-equivalent in the August 2024 announcement. Finger count beyond that phrase is not specified there.Body Configuration: Full humanoid with two arms and two legs. Total body degrees of freedom are not stated in the sources used here.Locomotion: Bipedal. BMW's release says the robot walks dynamically. A top speed is not in that release or in Figure's results post.Actuation: Electric, custom. Figure has said Figure 02 was designed and manufactured internally, and that the forearm's wrist electronics were the weak point later redesigned for Figure 03.
Compute & sensors
2. Compute, Sensor Array & CommunicationsCompute: 3x the computation and AI inference of Figure 01, onboard, per the August 2024 announcement. The chip model is not named in that release.Perception: 6 RGB cameras. Onboard vision-language model for visual reasoning. Microphones and speakers for speech, which the announcement tied to models trained with OpenAI.Wiring: Integrated cabling for power and compute, concealed, which Figure cited as a reliability and packaging change from the prior generation.
Materials
3. Material Properties & Environmental SealsStructural Frame: Not published as a materials list in the sources used here. Figure later described Figure 02 as a prototype-era design that relied heavily on machined parts, in its manufacturing write-up, and contrasted that with processes chosen for volume.External Surfaces: Official photographs show a dark shell and bare metal wear on the palms after factory use.Environmental Tolerance: Not disclosed. The BMW cell is an indoor body shop. No IP rating or outdoor rating is stated.
Company & ecosystem
Founded
2022
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California
Founder
Brett Adcock
Employees
120 in Figure's August 2024 announcement
Figure, based in Sunnyvale, California, builds humanoids for work it intends to be general-purpose. Figure 02 was the generation it put on a BMW line and then retired in favour of Figure 03.
Brett Adcock founded Figure in 2022. The company’s 6 August 2024 announcement introduced Figure 02 and described a team of 120 at that time. That headcount is a 2024 figure, not a current one. The same announcement is the source for the battery, cameras, hands, and compute. The BMW results post and the later decommission note are the sources for what the fleet actually did and how it ended. On this site, Figure 03 is the current Figure review. Figure 02 is the predecessor with the factory record.
QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions about Figure Ai
Can you buy a Figure 02?
No. Figure has not published a price or an order page for Figure 02, and the company has retired the fleet. Figure says most of the robots are gone and a few remain in storage at headquarters.
How much did the Figure 02 cost?
Not disclosed. Figure's announcement and BMW results post do not include an MSRP. Dollar figures quoted by retailers and databases are not used on this page.
What did Figure 02 actually do at BMW?
Figure reports an 11-month deployment at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, with 10-hour weekday shifts, 90,000-plus sheet-metal parts loaded, 1,250-plus hours, and a contribution to 30,000-plus BMW X3 vehicles. BMW's August 2024 release describes the early trial as inserting sheet-metal parts into fixtures in the body shop.
How is Figure 02 different from Figure 03?
Figure 02 is the retired second generation with the Spartanburg record. Figure 03 is the current robot, reviewed separately on this site. Figure has said the Figure 02 forearm was the top failure at BMW and that Figure 03 changed the wrist electronics because of it. Figure has also said the Figure 03 battery pack cut cost sharply versus the Figure 02 pack.
VERDICT
Bottom line
Figure 02 scores 6.2 overall because the composite includes a life the robot does not have. Capability is 8.2: a published BMW shift, 16-degree-of-freedom hands, a 2.25 kWh pack, and six cameras. Ease of use is 4.6 and apartment compatibility is 3.4, because there is no price, no order, and no home. Keep the factory record. Do the buying research on Figure 03.
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