Figure AI’s next-generation humanoid, Figure 03, has arrived at BMW Group’s Spartanburg plant. It follows on from the Figure 02, which helped build more than 30,000 BMW X3s in 2025. This time, the robot does more than just load sheet metal. It uses whole-body AI control from Figure’s Helix 02 system to sort unordered parts and tackle the sequencing of pulling loaded carts.
The Figure AI humanoid is back on the BMW factory floor…and it’s much more difficult than the first one.
This is Figure3, Figure AI’s latest humanoid robot, currently sitting on the floor of BMW’s Spartanburg factory.
After the robot helped the body shop build more than 30,000 BMW X3s last year, Figure 02 is picking up where it left off.
However, Figure 3 does not repeat that task. It’s about something much trickier: sequencing.
Parts are not sorted and arrive randomly oriented. Figure 3 has to check them, sort them and load them into the right car in the right order.
Now let’s do something we never did in Figure 2. Grasp and pull the loaded cart, balance and step while holding the parts.
It is powered by Helix2, Figure’s AI system that controls the robot’s hands, arms, torso, and legs in real time.
Figure3 also comes with softer and safer components, wireless charging, a haptic hand with a palm camera, and even voice-to-voice communications.
It’s all happening in Hall 52. The same hall is being upgraded to manufacture BMW’s next electric SUV, the iX5.
The CEO of Figure AI says this proves that humanoids are no longer lab experiments, but are becoming real factory workers.
