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Figure and humanoid robots
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- 0:00A robot company that barely sells
- 0:01anything is worth a reported $39
- 0:04billion. Even Elon Musk is racing to
- 0:07build a humanoid robot. But the one
- 0:09that's winning is Figure. Its robots
- 0:11already work on BMW's assembly line.
- 0:13Founder Brett Adcock had never built a
- 0:15robot, but he'd already built two other
- 0:17billion-dollar companies. Open AI backed
- 0:19him. Then he built the robot's brain
- 0:21himself. [music]
- 0:22One AI, Helix, lets it see, think, and
- 0:25act. In a year, the valuation jumped
- 0:27from 2.6 6 to a reported 39 [music]
- 0:29billion for a company with almost no
- 0:32revenue. Everyone from Tesla to China is
- 0:34racing to build the humanoid. It's a $39
- 0:36billion bet that the next iPhone has
- 0:39legs. Follow for the builder economy.
- 0:41[music]
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Original YouTube title: “A Robot Startup With No Revenue Is Worth $39B”. The original title may contain claims not confirmed by this companion.
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