Technical Recruiter

Lucid's Head of Global Logistics leaves for humanoid robot maker Figure. Andrew Bailey, Lucid's Head of Global Logistics, has left the EV maker to join humanoid robot developer Figure AI, he said on Thursday. "After an incredible chapter, I'm closing out my time at Lucid Motors and beginning a new one," Bailey wrote in a LinkedIn post. "Now, I'm excited to share that I've joined Figure AI as Head of Commercial Logistics," he added. Bailey worked at Lucid for over three and a half years. His Figure role started in September. Logistics organisation. Bailey joined Lucid in January 2023 as Director of Materials Management and became Head of Global Logistics in July that year, his profile shows. In that role, he led "a global logistics organization of 800+ across customs, transportation, material planning, packaging engineering, warehouse, and lineside operations," according to his profile. He was also responsible for the unit's full profit and loss and for inventory. As Director of Materials Management, Bailey oversaw material planning, flow engineering and internal logistics to "ensure zero production downtime in Lucid's build-to-order electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing environment," the profile says. He was based at Lucid's factory in Casa Grande, Arizona. The Saudi-backed carmaker currently sells two models, the Air sedan and the Gravity SUV, both built at the Casa Grande plant. A third model, the midsize Cosmos crossover, was previously scheduled to start production at Lucid's AMP-2 plant in Saudi Arabia in late 2026. "AMP-2 will be ready for production in early 2027 and ready to run midsize production in the second half of the year," Chief Executive Officer Silvio Napoli said on the company's second-quarter earnings call. "We will not repeat the mistakes of the past by bringing a product to market before it is ready," he added. Bailey said in his LinkedIn post that he is "incredibly grateful for my years at Lucid and for the opportunity to help build and scale the logistics organization through a period of tremendous growth and change." Before Lucid, Bailey spent 10 years at German automotive supplier Dräxlmaier Group, according to his profile. From November 2016 to September 2022, he was Plant Manager. There, he launched and led a plant producing interior components for luxury carmakers, with more than 400 staff across engineering, logistics, quality and production. Figure robots. At Figure, Bailey said he would "help build the logistics and deployment organization supporting one of the most ambitious technologies being developed today: humanoid robotics." Figure, founded in 2022 by Chief Executive Officer Brett Adcock, raised more than $1 billion at a $39 billion post-money valuation exactly a year ago. The company said in April it had delivered more than 350 Figure 03 robots from its BotQ factory and lifted output from one robot a day to one an hour in 120 days, according to a company update. In May, Figure signed an agreement with Catalyst Brands, owner of brands including JCPenney, Aéropostale and Brooks Brothers, to deploy humanoids starting at its distribution centre in Reno, Nevada, the company said. The Figure 03 also began work at BMW's plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in June, Figure said. There, the robot handles sequencing, picking parts and placing them in the correct slots for the assembly line while moving heavy carts, in the plant's assembly and logistics hall. Its predecessor, the Figure 02, loaded sheet-metal parts into a welding fixture at the same plant during an 11-month deployment that contributed to the production of more than 30,000 BMW X3s, Figure said in November 2025. Leaner Lucid. Bailey's exit comes as Lucid cuts costs and inventory under Napoli, who was named incoming CEO in April and took over on June 1. In June, Lucid said it would cut about 18% of its US workforce, with annualised savings of about $158 million, and eliminated the Chief Operating Officer role previously held by Marc Winterhoff. The departure of Winterhoff, who served as interim CEO for over a year, was exclusively reported by EV and later confirmed by Lucid in an SEC filing. "On June 22, 2026, the Company announced that Marc Winterhoff, Chief Operating Officer, has departed the Company, effective immediately following the elimination of the Chief Operating Officer position," Lucid announced. The company said it had deliberately reduced second-quarter production to 4,774 vehicles to "align output with anticipated demand, convert inventory into deliveries and cash," it said in August. Deliveries in the quarter totalled 3,953 units. Third quarter figures are expected to be released early in October. Lucid expects inventory reduction to contribute about $600 million to $800 million of the $1.4 billion in cash flow improvements it has identified for 2026. Lucid has also seen a string of senior departures since late 2023. Emad Dlala, Senior VP of Engineering and Software, left in June after nearly 11 years at the company. Cláudio Afonso founded CARBA in early 2021 and launched the news blog EV later that year.

Video: Robot walks into 30 stranger homes - then makes beds, folds towels and cleans up. Breakthrough highlights rapid embodied AI progress, but consumer robots remain distant Last updated: September 18, 2026 | 05:22 A humanoid robot enters a home it has never seen. No map. No special training. No prior data from inside the house. Then it starts making the bed, folding towels and tidying the living room. California-based robotics company Figure has unveiled Helix 2.5, a new artificial neural network (ANN) that it says allowed its humanoid robot to complete household work across 30 unfamiliar homes without collecting data in those properties or fine-tuning the system for their layouts, furniture or objects. Also In This Package A major home-robot test. Figure said the robot was tested in 30 previously unseen homes in the San Francisco Bay Area. The homes were excluded from the model's training process, and the company said it used a fixed version of the system for each task rather than adapting it from house to house. SPONSORED LINKS BY PROJECT AGORA The robot was assigned three long-horizon, whole-body household tasks: * Tidying a living room by collecting scattered objects, including toys, and putting them in a basket. * Folding towels and placing them away. * Making beds in unfamiliar bedrooms. Figure said Helix 2.5 could navigate different layouts, handle unfamiliar furniture and objects, and recover after mistakes without direct human intervention. The company described the work as "zero-shot" generalisation - meaning the robot had not been trained or adjusted using data from the homes or the specific objects used in the tests. The key breakthrough: generalisation. Robots have performed impressive demonstrations for years. But most operate in tightly controlled settings: factories with fixed workstations, warehouses with standardized shelves or carefully prepared lab environments. A real home is harder. Furniture is placed differently. Towels vary in size and material. Beds sit at different heights. Objects are cluttered, partially hidden or positioned in ways the robot did not expect. Lighting, flooring and room dimensions also change. Figure's claim matters: for a home robot to be useful, it must do more than repeat a memorised task. It must recognise a new environment, understand a verbal or visual goal, use its arms, hands and body safely, and adjust when the first attempt does not work. Figure said Helix 2.5 was pretrained using its proprietary "Index dataset" of human behaviour. In a controlled comparison, the company said pretraining raised zero-shot whole-task success to 56% from 9% for an otherwise comparable model trained from scratch, according to The AI Insider. The reported results are company figures and have not yet been independently peer-reviewed. Impressive - but not a robot maid yet. The demonstrations point to rapid progress in embodied AI: artificial intelligence that does not only generate words or images, but perceives and acts in the physical world. Still, there is a large gap between a successful test and a commercially reliable household robot. A product used daily in homes would need to work safely around children, pets, stairs, fragile items, hot appliances and unpredictable human behaviour. It would also need long battery life, low maintenance, robust privacy protections and a price that ordinary households can afford. The robot would have to complete tasks close to perfectly, not merely succeed in a majority of trial runs. The bigger race. Figure is part of an intensifying race to build humanoid robots that can work in warehouses, factories, logistics centers and, eventually, homes. Companies are betting that human-like bodies offer a practical advantage because the built world - doors, stairs, tools, kitchens and workplaces - was designed for people. For now, Figure's Helix 2.5 is a research milestone, not a consumer robot on sale at the mall. But the image is hard to ignore: a machine walking into a stranger's home and beginning to work without being shown where anything is. The long-promised household humanoid may not have arrived yet - but it is starting to look less like science fiction. Also In This Package

Nscale signs $3.5bn compute agreement with robotics company Figure. Could expand to $6bn September 04, 2026 Neocloud Nscale has signed a multi-year agreement with humanoid robotics company Figure. The agreement will see Nscale deploying up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs for Figure at its data center in Barstow, Texas. Nscale's Barstow data center is leased from Bitcoin miner Ionic Digital. It is located at 3013 FM 516, and has 234MW of capacity. Nscale is also deploying AI infrastructure for Microsoft at the site. The contract with Figure has an initial value of $3.5 billion, with the intent to scale to more than $6 billion over time. Nscale will become a shareholder in Figure with a "strategic investment," and will be Figure's preferred compute provider. Figure will use Nscale's compute to train its AI model, Helix. "We're excited to partner with Figure as physical intelligence becomes AI's next frontier," said Josh Payne, CEO and founder of Nscale. "We've seen incredible growth with inference and agentic AI, and Figure is pushing the boundaries of AI even further. We're proud to be enabling the future of AI robotics together." "Humanoid robots extend physical AI into the world designed for people - opening a major new industry," added Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. "Nscale and Figure have activated the robotics flywheel: training Figure's models on Nvidia Vera Rubin through Nscale's AI cloud, validating them in Nvidia Isaac Sim, and deploying them on Nvidia GPUs in Figure's robots. This is the physical AI flywheel that will accelerate the path from models to robots in the world." Figure is developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots, with the aim of achieving human-level intelligence to enable the robots to perform a variety of tasks in the industrial and home markets. Nscale is nearing an initial public offering in the US, from which it is reportedly aiming to raise $3bn. More in cloud & hyperscale.