Figure 03 humanoid robot, tracked: home help that clocks in at BMW

You cannot buy a Figure 03 humanoid robot. There is no price, no cart, no reservation and no waitlist anywhere on figure.ai. What the site does carry is the sentence "The future of home help is here," directly above a robot whose only publicly named customers are BMW and Catalyst Brands.

More than 350 of them exist. That is Figure's own count, published on April 29, 2026. None of them belongs to a household. This page tracks the distance between those two facts.

Figure 03 status box

• Orderable: No. No store, no cart, no reservation flow, no waitlist on figure.ai
• Price: None published, ever, that I can find. Not "call for quote," just absent
• Published specs (figure.ai/figure): 5 ft 8 in, 61 kg, 20 kg payload, 5 hr runtime, 1.2 m/s, electric
• Units built: "over 350" as of 2026-04-29, at a stated rate of one per hour
• Named customers: BMW (robot on site June 30, 2026) and Catalyst Brands (agreement announced May 26, 2026), per Figure's news index
• Consumer deliveries: zero, none claimed by Figure or anyone else
• Autonomy: Helix 02, Figure's own vision-language-action model, full-body control straight from camera pixels

01 to 02 to 03, with dates

Figure's public news index only reaches back to February 20, 2025, so the earlier generations have to be dated from secondary sources. I have marked which is which.

Generation	Introduced	What it was built for	The receipt
Figure 01	2022, per Wikipedia's company summary [secondary]	First bipedal prototype, aimed at logistics and warehousing	Prototype era. Nothing in today's claims rests on it
Figure 02	August 2024 [secondary, same source]	Industrial deployment	The generation that actually did factory work: sheet metal loading at BMW
Figure 03	October 9, 2025 [maker page]	Home framing throughout: soft washable covers, foam over pinch points, battery changes for "a home environment"	Went to BMW on June 30, 2026

The pattern reads clearly across three machines. The hardware got more domestic on paper with every generation, and the deployments stayed industrial.

What Figure 03 actually added

The October 9, 2025 announcement is a hardware post, and its changes are the most home-shaped thing about the machine. Figure lists 9% less mass than Figure 02; charging coils in the feet so the robot steps onto a stand and charges at 2 kW; fingertip sensors that "detect forces as small as three grams of pressure"; a palm camera in each hand; cameras with twice the frame rate, one quarter the latency and a 60% wider field of view; and 10 Gbps mmWave for bulk data offload.

Then the part that gives the game away about the target customer. Figure 03 is "covered in soft textiles rather than hard machined parts," padded with "strategically placed multi-density foam to protect against pinch points," and the covers are "fully washable" and removable without tools. Figure's stated reason is "battery safety advancements that make it safer and easier to use in a home environment."

That is a robot dressed for a living room. It clocks in at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, Hall 52.

The BMW job, in Figure's own numbers

Figure publishes better deployment data than most of this industry, worth saying before I start counting units.

For the previous generation, Figure's November 19, 2025 post claims Figure 02 contributed to production of "30,000+ X3 vehicles" at Spartanburg doing sheet metal loading, over "1,250+ hours of runtime" on a 10 hour shift Monday to Friday, with "90,000+ parts loaded." For the current generation, the June 30, 2026 post puts a Figure 03 into a parts sequencing job in Hall 52, selecting and sorting parts for the assembly line and pushing heavy carts around, run by Helix 02.

Read the count in that second post carefully. It is a robot, singular, arriving at one hall of one plant.

The claim and the receipt

This distinction matters because Figure has been caught stretching it before. In April 2025, Fortune's Jason Del Rey checked Brett Adcock's BMW claims against BMW and got a very different picture: BMW described a single robot, initially working outside production hours, later doing limited production work placing parts on fixtures. Adcock had described a fleet running end to end.

I am not calling the current BMW post inflated. Figure's June 2026 language is specific and modest, and the numbers in the November 2025 post are the kind you can be held to. The lesson from April 2025 is simply the tracker's default setting: count units, count hours, and treat everything else as marketing until a plant confirms it.

Built by the thousand, sold to nobody

The production post is impressive on its own terms. Figure went from one Figure 03 per day to one per hour inside 120 days, a 24x throughput improvement, with over 9,000 actuators produced and an end-of-line first pass yield "over 80% and improving weekly." Figure says its BotQ line "will initially be capable of producing up to 12,000 humanoid robots per year, with the goal of producing a total of 100,000 robots over the next four years." The same day, it put a number on the current week: 55 robots.

Figure says it scaled manufacturing 24x in 120 days, from 1 robot a day to 1 robot an hour, and will manufacture 55 humanoid robots this week (@Figure_robot, 2026-04-29)

Figure also says where the 350-plus went: internal research and development, data collection, work toward end-to-end housework, and commercial use case development. Every one of those is Figure using its own robots. None of it is a customer taking delivery at a house.

Compare that with the one home humanoid that does have a checkout. The 1X NEO has a published $20,000 price, a $499 per month alternative, and a $200 refundable deposit, and it still has zero independently verified home deliveries. Figure has the more capable machine and no way to give you one. For the full picture of who shipped what this year, see what actually shipped in 2026, and for every real price in the category, the price ladder.

The home evidence is film

Figure's household claims rest on demo videos, which are impressive and are still demos. Helix 02, announced January 27, 2026, is a single neural system driving the whole body from pixels: a 10M parameter S0 layer trained on over 1,000 hours of human motion data running at 1 kHz, an S1 visuomotor policy, and an S2 semantic layer. The showpiece is a four minute autonomous run loading and unloading a dishwasher.

The bedroom tidy from May 8, 2026 has two robots opening doors, hanging clothes, taking out trash and making a bed together in under two minutes, with, in Figure's words, "no shared planner between them, no message passing, no central coordinator." Figure does not state whether that bedroom is a real home or a set, and I am not going to assume. On our autonomy ladder, Helix 02 sits at the learned-and-narrow rung, the highest rung any shipping machine can truthfully stand on.

You cannot buy the stock either

A small, funny data point for anyone chasing exposure to this company. On July 8, 2026, Figure published a notice that any transfer of its stock requires board approval, that unapproved sales are "void and will not be recognized on our books and records," and that some broker emails offering access "may be scams or fraud." It names Forge Global, EquityZen and Unicorns Exchange as marketplaces it believes facilitated unauthorized transfers.

Figure raised over $1B in Series C at a $39B post-money valuation in September 2025. You cannot buy the robot, and you cannot legitimately buy the shares. The stocks and ETFs map covers the indirect routes people try instead.

What would change this page

Four triggers, all falsifiable, all things I check for:

1. A published price, of any kind, for any buyer.
2. A cart, a reservation, or even a waitlist email box on figure.ai.
3. A named residential customer, or a delivery to a house that someone outside Figure can confirm.
4. A third party, not Figure, filming a Figure 03 doing housework in a home that is not Figure's.

Until then the tracker entry stays where it is: real hardware, real factory, real industrial work, and a home robot that no home has.