Brett Adcock, co-founder and CEO of the Startup figure of Humanoid Robotics Ai, has made a rare public appearance to Bloomberg Tech Thursday conference. The figure was recently the subject of a couple News articles This has questioned his progress with the Tent Customer BMW. Figure has thus opposed to at least one of these relationships that Adcock has publicly threatened to sweat the publication.

To the question of the skepticism surrounding the reports BMW and Whew is a pilot or has a commercial value for the company, Adcock stiploud with an explanation of the technical benefit of having robots on a factory floor but has not provided specific on the contractual relationship with the BMW.

“We get a lot of value and it is really important that we have to understand how to perform robots every day. Let’s see how they perform. We can keep track of all the metrics,” he said. Two months ago, the figure published also A YouTube video Showing a pair of robots that work in an BMW factory.

ADCOCK, however, said that the figure Ai signed a contract with a second -sized customer for the initial distribution, a customer that Bloomberg reported that he was UPS.

Figure Ai attracted attention to argue that its robots with air from artificial intelligence have motor skills similar to man and can manipulate objects with precision. Despite having released numerous videos of its robots at work, the company has given a live demonstration of the humanoids.

The interviewer, and Bloomberg’s Ludlow, underlined that while two other robotics companies, Agility Robotics and Boston Dynamics, showed their robots at the conference, the figure at no. “It is somehow returned to our Spawn philosophy, we wear many events,” said Adcock. “I think it is a loss of giant time. To be honest, I have to bring a team here to bring Robot here. They could be in the office,” he added, adding that the company is showing off the robots in the videos.

Adcock has confirmed that the figure Ai expects to produce and distribute about 100,000 units within four years.

Skepticism on the commercial relationship of the figure comes among the attempts of the company to collect a round of $ 1.5 billion a $ 39.5 billion Evaluation, sources told in Bloomberg, a fifteen times includes from $ 2.6 billion Evaluation obtained in February 2024.

Techcrunch reported in April that the figure AI was Letters of termination and desists To the secondary market brokers, asking that they stop marketing his actions because they are not authorized to do so.