Today we're introducing Hark Handoff
Handoff has been independently verified as the best internet-use model ever built, outperforming ChatGPT 5.4 & Opus 4.8
While others focus on coding, we focus on everyday life: ordering food, booking flights, shopping, & navigating the web
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F.03 can now climb a ladder, fully autonomous
In celebration of manufacturing our 1,000th F.03 robot, the team built me a leg lamp 😂
It’s a major award!
My favorite hardware engineering image!
What makes hardware so difficult, besides high capital costs & long hardware lead times, is that there are a dozen individual engineering teams with often conflicting requirements. You fix this with great systems engineering design 🫠
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Figure robots now have visitor passes!
They have full access to every door on campus. Soon there will be hundreds of them walking around campus, just coming and going
Proud to share BotQ has manufactured our 1,000th humanoid robot for F.03 - congrats to the team!
BotQ completed our 1,000th EVT battery pack for the F.03 humanoid robot 🦾
Manufactured in California
Just leaving the Hark office; team is in full crank mode
I have a bit of a different view on where digital AI should be headed…I can’t wait to show you more about what we’re building!
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@adcock_brett explains why he started a new AI lab called Hark:
"We're designing next-generation AI models and next-generation AI devices."
"Right now we interact with AI through 20-year-old computers, phones and MacBooks."
"They're not the ideal intermediary and interface to AI."
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Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
I’ll try and compress 20 years of experience into 30 seconds
Startups have a GREAT FILTER that kills almost everyone. It’s there to weed out the people who aren’t meant to build companies
The good news is it can be beaten - even with little or no capital. Once you beat it, you can do it again. You can choose to stay at the current level or attempt to level up
The level boss is always the same: if you quit, you fail
I can’t stress this enough: almost every skill can be learned. Never stop improving. You can acquire new skills, hire better people, change the product, pivot the strategy, or rethink your assumptions
You’ll hit the wall. Most will quit. But just keep going
If something isn’t working, change course. Change your vector: reassess your hypothesis, measure the results, and keep iterating
Also working hard compounds. The more quality work you can put in, the better your odds. There is no balance
Almost nobody succeeds on their first attempt
If you want it badly enough, you can bend the future in your direction
Just start. And keep pushing
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@adcock_brett What were the key challenges in taking Archer Aviation from concept to a publicly traded company?
Figure 03 humanoid robot has started performing a logistics workflow at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg
You can read more about it here:
We’re on generation 7 of our hand design, they’re so hard!
Our latest design is so human-like it looks like a person wearing a glove
- Figure started from absolute scratch just four years ago today
- Rapidly iterated vertically integrated platforms for hardware and AI
- This wouldn't happen without a high level of grit and relentless engineering
Next four years are gonna be crazy interesting to watch.
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We are early here, I suspect this will 10x within a year or two
VC interest in robotics is surging
Charts of the Week:
Walking through Figure’s campus feels like stepping into I, Robot the movie - humanoid robots everywhere
Touring FigureAI HQ was like walking into a glimpse of the future
Few other places where you’ll see hundreds of humanoids walking around, collecting training data, being evaluated for model performance, doing household and logistics tasks
Might just be normal 5 years from now
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Sadly we will need to dismantle most of the F.02 robots…may do something epic
@adcock_brett Question did Figure replace the F.02 with all 3’s and do you reuse robot parts from the F.02’s
Excited to see F.03 humanoid robot at BMW in Spartanburg, more to come next week