Figure says its BotQ factory now builds a Figure 03 humanoid every hour, up from one a day. In an April 29 update, the company said the plant has turned out more than 350 third-generation robots and called the change “a 24x throughput improvement in under 120 days.” These are Figure’s figures; no one outside the company has audited them.

What Figure reported

The update is unusually detailed for a humanoid company. Figure says BotQ runs custom manufacturing software across more than 150 networked workstations, with more than 50 in-process inspection points. Its end-of-line first-pass yield, the share of robots that pass final checks without rework, is “now over 80% and improving weekly.” The battery line has a 99.3% first-pass yield and has shipped more than 500 packs, and BotQ has built more than 9,000 actuators across more than 10 part numbers. Each robot goes through more than 80 functional tests, including burn-in sessions of squats, shoulder presses and jogging.

Two words in the release deserve care. Figure says it has “demonstrated the one robot per hour cycle time” and “will continue to optimize from here.” A demonstrated cycle time is not the same as a sustained rate, and Figure did not say how many hours a day the line runs or how long it has held that pace.

Where the robots go

The 350 robots are mostly Figure’s own fleet. Figure says robots shipped from BotQ go to internal research and development, data collection, home-task work and commercial use-case development, and that a larger fleet produces more data for its Helix AI model. It has also built a field service system, fleet management software and over-the-air updates, and describes processes for “fleet-wide upgrades and recall campaigns.”

For scale: when Figure introduced Figure 03 in October 2025, it said BotQ’s first line would initially be capable of up to 12,000 robots a year, with a goal of 100,000 over four years.

Update: Figure 03 at BMW

On June 30, after this article first ran, Figure said Figure 03 had arrived in Hall 52 at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, working on sequencing: picking thin-walled parts that arrive in varying positions and pulling a heavy parts cart. Figure said Figure 02 “contributed to the assembly of 30,000 cars at BMW last year.” The June post describes a demonstration of the workflow. It does not give a robot count, hours worked or a cycle time at BMW.

The next useful numbers are sustained weekly output, first-pass yield moving toward the battery line’s level, and how many of the robots BotQ builds end up at paying customer sites rather than in Figure’s own programs.

Correction: An earlier version of this article said Figure 03 was working at full BMW line cadence without a nearby safety operator and cited shift battery, hot-swap, injury and retailer claims. The April source concerns robot manufacturing, not BMW line speed, and those claims have been removed.