Figure Built Robot #1,000 and Painted It Gold

Figure's 1,000th Figure 03 humanoid is a real manufacturing milestone because it suggests a Western company may finally be learning how to mass-produce humanoid robots. Figure says BotQ went from building one robot a day in January to one robot an hour by late April, helped by die-casting, injection molding, stamping, and a factory system built around inspection, testing, and yield.

This episode audits that claim against the global scoreboard, where AgiBot, Unitree, and UBTECH are still ahead on volume, shipments, or orders, while Tesla is still showing factory capacity without public production numbers. It also covers the catch behind the gold-painted unit: no public price, no preorder, no retail channel, and no clear consumer path yet, with robots going to internal programs or the BMW Spartanburg deployment while Figure tries to prove it can sustain the curve.

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