Business · 30 Sept 2026 · Company announcement

Figure retires its F.02 humanoid fleet by melting units at a Finnish foundry

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The company says it decommissioned its second-generation robots at a steel foundry in Imatra, protecting proprietary hardware, and will sell limited-edition artefacts made from the metal.

Figure says it has decommissioned its F.02 humanoids by melting them down at a foundry in Imatra, Finland, to keep proprietary hardware out of circulation.

The company says the team had 24 hours and six melts in a 75-ton electric arc furnace, with about 20 minutes per melt before the steel crusted over. It says it trained the robots in simulation to jump autonomously into the molten steel, and is making a limited series of artefacts from the resulting metal.

Figure says F.02 marked its first BMW deployment, the start of Helix, its first household-chore robot and its first logistics deployment. A few units remain in storage at its headquarters, the company says.

Sources

Figure (company news post: F.02 Decommission)

Specs: Figure 02 full specifications

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