Humanoid Maker Figure Is Paying Humans To Do Housework So Its Robots Can Learn

The types of tasks being recorded also offer a clue about Figure’s ambitions. Many involve homes, including laundry, cooking, cleaning, watering plants, handling groceries and taking out the trash. Figure says every 1,000 hours of collected footage covers 373 tasks, 1,146 objects and 116 different environments. That suggests the company is preparing its robots for environments that are far less predictable than factories and warehouses.