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

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

Brett Adcock, co-founder and CEO of the humanoid robotics startup Figure AI, made a rare public appearance at the Bloomberg Tech conference on Thursday. Figure has recently been the subject of a couple news articles that questioned its progress with marquee customer BMW. Figure objected so strenuously to at least one of these reports that Adcock publicly threatened to sue the publication.

When asked about the skepticism surrounding the BMW relationship and whether it is a pilot or has…

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