Figure partners with Brookfield to advance AI-powered humanoids
Figure, an American robotics company specializing in the development of AI-powered humanoids, has signed a strategic partnership with Brookfield, a leading global investment firm, to accelerate the development and deployment of its general-purpose humanoid robots. The deal also includes an investment by Brookfield in Figure’s Series C round.
For eeNews Europe readers, this marks another significant step in how AI, robotics, and real estate are converging to create large-scale testbeds and commercial opportunities for humanoid robots. The collaboration could drive new demand for AI infrastructure and open real-world deployment channels in residential and industrial settings.
Building the world’s largest humanoid dataset
The partnership focuses on building the most comprehensive pretraining dataset for Helix, Figure’s proprietary vision-language-action model. By leveraging Brookfield’s global real estate portfolio, including 100,000 residential units, 500 million square feet of office space, and 160 million square feet of logistics facilities, Figure will collect massive amounts of humanlike navigation and manipulation data.
“This partnership marks a major milestone in our journey to build general-purpose humanoid robots,” said Brett Adcock, Founder and CEO of Figure. “Brookfield’s scale gives us an unmatched platform to capture massive amounts of real-world, humanlike navigation and manipulation data across a variety of household environments necessary to unlock general-purpose humanoid robots.”
According to Figure, video capture in these diverse environments will help Helix train humanoids to move, perceive, and act more like people across a wide spectrum of spaces. Data collection has already begun in Brookfield locations and will continue to expand over the coming months.
AI infrastructure and deployment opportunities
Beyond data gathering, the companies are exploring deeper collaboration in infrastructure, such as GPU data centers, real estate for robotic training facilities, and direct commercial use cases across Brookfield’s global operations.
Bruce Flatt, CEO of Brookfield, said, “This approach to collaboration furthers Brookfield’s position at the forefront of integrating artificial intelligence to drive productivity in real assets and business.”
Stewart Upson, Head of Global Strategy for Brookfield, added, “We’re proud to be collaborating with Figure on this, unlocking direct deployment opportunities over time with a view to enhancing our operations.”
Figure has already started early deployments with select customers, and Brookfield’s platform could serve as a proving ground for humanoid robots in residential, office, and logistics settings. The companies see this as a pathway to tackling one of AI’s toughest challenges — enabling robots to carry out useful, humanlike tasks in everyday environments.
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