Figure 03 8 hour shift livestream (sorting packages)

[Alan Timm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luU57hMhkak

It's fascinating to watch in the background while I'm working.  

He's fast, his hands have pretty accurate grip behaviors, and if anything the package counter is undercounting.

It actually gets me wondering how to teleoperate multifinger hands for training.

I currently have a trigger that works good for claws.  I'll need to dig into how they're doing it.

The future is (almost) here?

[Thomas Messerschmidt]

Thanks for posting that Alan. It’s fun to watch. I can almost hear Marvin’s voice from HHGTTG saying, “Here. I am, brain the size of a planet…call that job satisfaction? Because I don’t.“

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On May 13, 2026, at 11:01 AM, Alan Timm <gest...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luU57hMhkak

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[Alan Timm]

A few things I've noticed so far:

• The job is to place the packages label side down for the scanner at the end of the conveyor.  Seems obvious but I assume that the conveyor just funnels the packages back into the hopper for continuous testing.
• It's not perfect, but it's very good and pretty fast..  seems to be almost perfect on placing soft packages label side down, but there have been many box packages where the labelled side was facing to the side instead, and I just saw a soft package fall off the side of the conveyor
• Each shift is 1 hour before the robot is swapped.  There are 2 additional robots behind.  Seems that at present you need 3 robots for continuous operation.  There are main reasons for this.  The obvious one is that at this activity level the battery only lasts this long.  The less obvious reason is that after an hour of work like this the robot needs a cool-down period.
• If you're tuning in to see something spectacular happen I wouldn't get my hopes up.  While this is a "Livestream" if I were Figure I would have prerecorded it just to make sure there were no surprises.

Still it's very cool!

Alan

[Alan Timm]

Holy smokes I may have to take back the "prerecorded" comment.

The three bots are still going strong in the livestream and are nearing 24 hours of continuous work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luU57hMhkak

And the CEO slapped name tags on them. There's a Frank and a Gary. I didn't catch the name of the third bot.

[Alan Timm]

Figure is rapidly approaching 48 hours of continuous operation!

Yesterday afternoon they swapped out Frank for Rose, so as of this morning:

- Gary is still going strong

- Bob is still holding his own after being tagged in on day 1

- Rose is doing just fine.

It's also kinda fun to see a bot just pass by in the background doing who knows what.

I haven't seen any info on why Frank was rotated out.  Very impressive work.

Alan