Figure AI

Figure AI is unveiling Index, a crowdsourced data collection platform that pays people to record video of themselves doing ordinary household and workplace tasks so those recordings can train humanoid robots. The app is now available on Google Play and the App Store , and anyone can sign up as a "Creator" to film chores like making beds, folding laundry, serving guests at a local cafe, or stocking retail shelves . The dataset feeds Helix, Figure's vision-language-action model, and is aimed at the generalization problem holding back general-purpose humanoids in the home. The launch matters because Figure is publicly committing to a data-first approach after concluding vendor-supplied data was insufficient. Prior to this the company tried buying data, but vendors couldn't hit the throughput, diversity, or quality bar Helix requires, so Figure built the pipeline itself . Reported traction includes 264,000 downloads across 108 countries, over 44,000 weekly active users, and 30 minutes of video processed every second , with $15M paid to Creators to date . The effort began last September as an internal project called "Go-Big" before being rebranded as Index . Figure was founded in 2022 by Brett Adcock and is headquartered in San Jose, California, where it builds the Figure 01, 02, and 03 humanoids . Adcock is also known as a co-founder of Archer Aviation and Vettery . Alongside Index, the company is signaling a $1B spend on data and compute over the next twelve months, positioning the app as the sourcing layer for that investment and inviting operators of homes, restaurants, warehouses, and offices to participate directly in generating the training corpus.