Figure robots are already performing real work for customers at human speeds with positive ROI, having shipped to three customers and run 200 hours straight at 2.9 seconds per package.
Adcock describes Figure's current progress: robots are deployed to customers including BMW, performing logistics tasks like package sorting at human speed (2.9 seconds per package over 200 continuous hours), with customers citing labor shortages and high turnover as the primary motivation for adoption. ✦ AI generated
Brett Adcock · My First Million · 2026-08-14 · original ↗
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“What can the robot do? what you know maybe can't it do at at this point.”
They just did a live YouTube video and they had hundreds of thousands maybe millions of views of people watching this robot sort packages off of a conveyor belt... It's the pitch is like they come to us and they're saying like we're dying with labor. It's like we're like we have like really high turnover. Some areas have over 100% turnover per year. It's really expensive to find talent. We have like a just a large talent shortfall. The talent's really expensive. Like wages are going up and we like we don't have a solve for this. We can't figure out how to automate all this work and uh we need you to come in and help us... We did that 200 hours straight at 2.9 seconds a package. So, we're already at human speeds. We're already doing this here now. They're already having ROI and uh we're now in the early stages of like getting these out to these customers and scaling it up.
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21:57customer and it's doing I don't know what you said like packaging work or what is that like sorting or tearing or what is it doing? >> They just did a live YouTube video and they had hundreds of thousands maybe millions of views of people watching this robot sort packages off of a conveyor belt. >> Yeah, I saw that. So is is that the type is that like would that give me an
22:14example of one of the jobs just like >> that's an example of like like a very close like one of the one of the works we do >> is that customer like oh this is awesome because I can't find the labor to do this uh it's too expensive to pay humans this is way cheaper or is it just like hey look today it's not faster cheaper or better necessarily but like it's an
22:33investment in the future where two years from now that cost curve is going to work and it will be faster cheaper you know whatever. No, no, no. It's like uh it's the pitch is like they come to us and they're saying like we're dying with labor. It's like we're like we have like really high turnover. Some areas have over 100% turnover per year. It's really expensive to find talent. We have like a
22:51just a large talent shortfall. The talent's really expensive. Like wages are going up and we like we don't have a solve for this. We can't figure out how to automate all this work and uh we need you to come in and help us. We have an ability to make a lot of good money in our contracts and the customers make like really good ROI on this. Like you
23:09got to think like a robot can do like multiple shifts per day, work seven days a week. Like we can like have a lot of uptime. Uh the task you saw like on the on the on the like um logistics line that we should live stream was actually a real use case for one of our customers. Uh that needs to be done at 3 seconds a package and it initially needs
23:25to be done five hours a day. Like I think it's like 5 days a week. We did that 200 hours straight at 2.9 seconds a package. So, we're already at human speeds. We're already doing this here now. They're already having ROI and uh we're now in the early stages of like getting these out to these customers and scaling it up. Uh over time, it will just put
23:44billions out to these groups. >> Can you help me with like the kind of truth first fiction? Cuz uh one of the weird things is as an enthusiast or a lay person who's who's excited about this future, you can't really it's like really expensive or hard to test this, right? Right. So, I'll see like a a Chinese robot and it's 20 grand if I want to buy this robot. I have no idea
24:02really what it can do. I see uh you know Elon will go out there and say, "We're going to we're going to build a million of these things in the next year. We're going to ship them." Uh then you get like 1X and they're showing their hand and they're like, "Look at our hand. Look, this is a this is the best hand you've ever seen." And then there's this