Figure Partners with Brookfield to Build World’s Largest Humanoid Pretraining Dataset

Figure has announced a landmark partnership with Brookfield, one of the world’s largest alternative asset managers with over $1 trillion in assets and 100,000 residential units under management.

The collaboration will help Figure build the world’s largest and most diverse humanoid pretraining dataset, scale its proprietary vision-language-action model Helix, and accelerate the commercial deployment of humanoid robots. Brookfield has also invested in Figure’s Series C fundraising as part of the broader alliance.

The startup raised over $1 billion in Series C funding, valuing it at $39 billion. Backed by Parkway Venture Capital, Brookfield, Nvidia, and Intel, the funds will scale robot deployment, infrastructure, and data collection. Figure has secured nearly $2 billion since 2022.

“This partnership marks a major milestone in our journey to build general-purpose humanoid robots. Brookfield’s scale gives us an unmatched platform to capture massive amounts of real-world, humanlike navigation and manipulation data across a variety of household environments necessary to unlock general-purpose humanoid robots,” Brett Adcock, Founder and CEO of Figure, said.

Today Figure is announcing a first-of-its-kind partnership with Brookfield Brookfield is one of the world’s largest asset managers with over $1 trillion of assets and 100,000 residential units This… | Brett Adcock

Today Figure is announcing a first-of-its-kind partnership with Brookfield Brookfield is one of the world’s largest asset managers with over $1 trillion of assets and 100,000 residential units This deal provides access to real-world environments and compute needed to scale Helix. With access to Brookfield’s massive scale, we plan to: → Develop the world’s largest and most diverse real-world humanoid pretraining dataset → Build critical AI infrastructure for scaling Helix, Figure’s internally developed AI model → Deploy humanoid robots in new commercial settings across Brookfield’s portfolio If you’re interested in learning more about our partnership with Brookfield we posted a write-up: https://lnkd.in/gAMdJpKM

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Brookfield’s vast real estate portfolio—including 500 million square feet of office space and 160 million square feet of logistics assets—will provide diverse environments for Figure to capture training data for Helix. Human video capture across these sites will help humanoid robots learn to move, perceive, and act effectively in human-centric spaces.

Bruce Flatt, CEO of Brookfield, noted, “This approach to collaboration furthers Brookfield’s position at the forefront of integrating artificial intelligence to drive productivity in real assets and business.”

Beyond data collection, the partnership will explore infrastructure support, such as GPU-powered data centers and training environments, while also piloting humanoid deployments across Brookfield’s portfolio. Together, the companies aim to advance humanoid AI for large-scale, real-world applications.