Figure AI CEO skips live demo, sidesteps BMW deal questions onstage at tech conference

Humanoid Robotics Startup Fig Co-founder and CEO Brett Adkock created the rare public presence Bloomberg Tech Conference on Thursday. The figure has recently become the subject of a couple News article It questioned Marci customer BMW its progress. The figure objected to at least one of these reports so strictly Adok had publicly threatened To make the publication case.

When asked about the skepticism around the BMW relationship and whether it has a commercial value to any pilot or company, Adok responded by explaining the technical advantage of robot on the floor of a factory, but did not provide specific details about contract -based relationships with BMW.

“We get a lot of value, and it is really important that we need to determine how to drive a robot every day. We see how well they perform. We can track all the metrics,” he said. The image was also published two months ago A YouTube video Some of these robots are working at the BMW factory.

Adk, however, said that the image AI signed an agreement with a second, anonymous customer for the initial deployment of AI, a customer that said Bloomberg CompromiseThe

Image AI claims to claim that its AI-driven robots possesses subtle motor skills like humans and can handle objects with accuracy. Despite publishing numerous videos of its robots in the workplace, the company did not protest the lives of humanoids.

Interviewer, Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlo mentioned that two more robotics companies, agitating robotics and Boston Dynamics displayed their robots, did not do that. “It comes back to our whole philosophy that we don’t go to a lot of events,” said Adok. “I think it’s a huge waste of time. Openly speaking, I have to bring a team to bring a robot here. They may be in the office,” he added that the company is displaying robots in the video.

Adk confirmed that the image AI is expected to produce and deploy about 100,000 units in four years.

Suspicion on Figher’s commercial relations comes in the effort to increase a $ 1.5 billion round of Round AA $ 39.5 billion Evaluated $ 2.6 billion The evaluation was achieved in February 2024.

TechCrunch reports that the figure is issued in April that AI is issued Stop and turn off letters of the gallows To the secondary market brokers, claiming they stop marketing its shares because they are not authorized to do so.