Figure partners with Brookfield to develop humanoid robot dataset

Figure, a California-based humanoid robot developer, announced a partnership with Brookfield, an alternative asset manager with over $1 trillion in assets under management. The collaboration will focus on creating a dataset for training humanoid robots and developing AI infrastructure.

Brookfield will provide access to its real estate portfolio, which includes over 100,000 residential units, 500 million square feet of commercial office space, and 160 million square feet of logistics space. Figure will use human video capture across these environments to collect training data for Helix, its vision-language-action model.

"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," said Brett Adcock, Figure's founder and CEO.

The partnership includes Brookfield's investment in Figure's Series C funding round. Figure has begun data collection in Brookfield environments and plans to expand the program in coming months.

Bruce Flatt, Brookfield's CEO, stated the collaboration "furthers Brookfield's position at the forefront of integrating artificial intelligence to drive productivity in real assets and business."

The companies will explore infrastructure collaboration opportunities, including support for GPU data centers and real estate for robotic training environments. They also plan to examine potential deployment of humanoid robots within Brookfield's portfolio.

Brookfield Corporation trades on NYSE and TSX under ticker BN, while Brookfield Asset Management trades under BAM on both exchanges.

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