Provenance Record

Mid-length News piece (929 words). Strong structure: Overview / What Figure Disclosed / A New Locomotion Capability, Trained Entirely in Simulation / Context: A \$39 Billion Valuation Behind the Ramp / What We Don't Know / Why It Matters. Heavy attribution density on every numeric claim. Notable: the 'What We Don't Know' section critically flags self-reported yield numbers and the 80% vs >99% mature-electronics benchmark gap — that's honest editorial caveating, not editorializing.

4 sources, all snapshots HTTP 200. source-0 (Interesting Engineering): confirms 24x throughput / 120 days / 350+ robots / 9,000 actuators / 12,000 robots/year ceiling, Helix System 0 / perception-conditioned / stereo cameras framing, 150 networked workstations / 80 functional verification tests, stress-and-burn-in 'squats and jogging' phrasing. source-1 (Figure 'ramping' blog post): confirms verbatim 'from 1 Figure 03 per day to 1 per hour - a 24x throughput improvement in under 120 days'; 'over 350 of our third generation humanoid robots'; 'over 9,000 actuators across more than 10 distinct SKUs'; 'over 500 battery packs'; '99.3%' battery yield; 'now over 80% and improving weekly' end-of-line yield; '80 functional verification tests'; '150 networked workstations'; '50 in-process inspection points'; 'perception-conditioned whole-body control'; 'zero-shot - no real-world fine-tuning'; 'The same network weights that learn to climb procedurally generated staircases in sim now traverse real-world stairs on the robot'. source-2 (Figure BotQ post): confirms '12,000 robots per year' first-gen line rating, 'can easily scale to 100,000 robots or 3,000,000 actuators in the next four years', Figure 03 as 'our production robot built for affordability and high-volume manufacturing', plan to use Figure robots in its own manufacturing. source-3 (PR Newswire Series C): confirms 'exceeded more than \$1 billion in committed capital', '\$39 billion post-money valuation', September 2025 announcement timing, Parkway Venture Capital lead, full investor list (Brookfield, NVIDIA, Macquarie, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, Tamarack Global, LG Technology Ventures, Salesforce, T-Mobile Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures), Brett Adcock quote 'This milestone is critical to unlocking the next stage of growth for humanoid robots, scaling out our AI platform Helix and BotQ manufacturing' verbatim.

Every numeric claim (24x, 120 days, 350+ robots, 9,000 actuators, 500 battery packs, 99.3%, 80%, 12,000/year, 100,000/4 years, 3,000,000 actuators, 150 workstations, 80 verification tests, 50 inspection points, \$1B+ committed, \$39B post-money), every named entity (BotQ, Figure 03, Helix, System 0, Brett Adcock, Parkway, Brookfield, NVIDIA, etc.), and every direct quote trace to verified Figure or PR Newswire snapshots. Interesting Engineering provides independent corroboration of the company-claimed numbers.

Clean APPROVE. Strong manufacturing-side reporting with comprehensive primary-source attribution and honest editorial caveating on self-reported yield numbers.