RobotRisk Autonomous Systems Incident & Risk Register
RobotRisk / humanoid / Figure AI

Figure AI

Products: Humanoid, Vision-Language-Action model. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 6.6/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 94th percentile of 54 humanoid companies.

Analyst brief

The record consists of a single entry from November 2025, a whistleblower report describing a Figure humanoid robot gouging a steel door and warning of skull-fracture risk, with severity rated 2 of 5. This is a single-source, press-driven allegation rather than a documented injury event or regulatory finding. Figure AI's index of 9.1 corresponds to the 94.3rd percentile within the humanoid category despite the low band and single entry, indicating most humanoid-category entities carry lower index values. The record shows no recall, fatality, or repeat-incident entries to establish a broader pattern.

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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S2 malfunction Whistleblower says Figure robot gouged steel door, warns of skull-fracture risk · 1 unit (test malfunction) Interesting Engineering

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