Figure AI partners with Brookfield to develop humanoid pre-training dataset - The Robot Report

Figure AI Inc., a developer of humanoid robots, has partnered with Brookfield Corp., a major alternative asset manager, to create a large and diverse real-world pretraining dataset for humanoid robots. This collaboration aims to enhance Figure AI’s proprietary vision-language-action (VLA) model, Helix, by collecting extensive human navigation and manipulation data across various household and commercial environments managed by Brookfield. The partnership also includes Brookfield’s investment in Figure AI’s recent Series C funding round, which raised over $1 billion and valued the company at $39 billion. Figure AI has already begun deploying its Figure 02 humanoid systems commercially and received recognition for its rapid development pace. Brookfield’s extensive real estate portfolio, including over 500 million square feet of commercial office space and 160 million square feet of logistics space, provides strategic environments for data collection critical to training humanoid robots. The partnership will also explore infrastructure support such as next-generation GPU data centers and robotic training facilities, as well as