Provenance Record

News-category (~1,300 words). Overview / What we know / The stack behind the demo / What we don't know / Skepticism structure. Notably strong on the 'What we don't know' section — flags package mix, mis-placed rate vs system-failure rate, fleet size, and the 0.3% breakage figure that BigGo alone reports without cross-confirmation. Skepticism section carries Howard's 'science project' framing and the on-camera-hand-movement controversy with Adcock's verbatim denial. Loaded-language warning ('absolutely') comes from a direct Adcock quote — acceptable.

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Exemplary livestream-event coverage with strong Rule 9 discipline (Figure's own technical post cited as primary publication). All 33 specifics verified verbatim across 9 snapshots: 81-hour run + 101,391 packages (Seoul Economic Daily); Adcock X-post launch + 8-hr framing + 'Helix-02' running (TechTimes); 'Our original goal was an 8-hour run...uncharted territory' Adcock quote + 33,137 packages at 26h + Sunnyvale location + Digit since 2023 framing (Humanoids Daily); 28,000 packages at 24h + Bob/Frank/Gary nicknames (Interesting Engineering); 50,000 packages at 38h + 0.3% breakage rate (BigGo Finance); 60-70 humanoids weekly + several thousand annual target + 90% accuracy target + Adcock 'absolutely no teleoperation into this' quote + 3-second-per-parcel human benchmark (The Star/Bloomberg wire); 88,000 packages at 72h + Howard 'science project' quote + Tesla Optimus/Atlas/1X competitive framing + nearly $40B valuation (Crypto Briefing); Howard 'science project' carried in English edition + 'Jim' robot framing (Seoul Economic Daily); $39B valuation + $1B raised (Glitchwire); 1,000 hours retargeted human motion + 109,504 lines C++ replaced + System 0 1 kHz 10M-param + System 1 200 Hz + 'three grams' fingertip tactile threshold (Figure's Helix-02 post). TechTimes verbatim: 35 DOF + 'first VLA model to deliver continuous control of an entire humanoid upper body including individual fingers' + BMW Spartanburg / 90,000 parts.