Brett Adcock, founder of Archer Aviation, who left the flying taxi company to pursue humanoid robotics and the deployment of Artificial General Intelligence, recently shared how his team at Figure AI developed a humanoid robot in just 31 months, achieving the robot's first successful walk within a year.

Adcock recently spoke at the 2025 Abundance360 summit in Los Angeles and described how humanoid robots are the ultimate "deployment vector" for AGI, comparing what's happening in robotics to an "iPhone moment"- a game-changing breakthrough when a new product suddenly transforms an industry.

Adcock said that Figure AI designs a new hardware platform every 12 to 18 months. He noted that his startup has secured commercial customers like BMW...

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This isn't a test environment—it's real production operations

Real-world robots are advancing our Helix AI and strengthening our end- to-end autonomy to deploy millions of robots

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Poster Comment:

Slow robot, eventuslly UAW is toast. Musk's Optimus robots seem better.