Figure 03 endurance test: 348 miles (560 km) walked in nine days
From the Robots digest for 2026-10-20
What happened: Heise reported on October 20, 2026 (~4:45 AM ET) that a Figure 03 humanoid robot walked 560 km (348 miles) on a treadmill in an endurance test; a RobotsBeat writeup (~1:05 PM ET) attributes the figure to CEO Brett Adcock and adds that the run logged 1.2 million steps over nine days in an ongoing hardware stress test. Neither report discloses error or failure data.
What's genuinely new: A durability metric for Figure's third-generation humanoid, and a debut for the company in the record. The single headline number is a company-run test, relayed by its own CEO with no error or failure data — the same announce-versus-evidence gap the reality-check thread keeps flagging: 560 km of treadmill walking says nothing about folding laundry, but it is a concrete claim about joint and actuator longevity that can be checked later. The "ongoing" framing means the number will keep moving.
Watch: Disclosure of error rates or mean-time-between-failures from the test; the final total and its duration; any third-party verification; what the endurance figure implies for multi-hour commercial shifts if Figure's deployments progress.
Links: heise — It keeps going and going … Figure 03 robot covers 560 km · RobotsBeat — Figure 03 walks 348 miles in nine-day treadmill stress test