Nvidia eyes major investment in Figure AI robotics: Here’s what to know

Jensen Huang said the partnership allows Figure to train models on Nvidia Vera Rubin and then implement them on Nvidia GPUs inside Figure’s robots.Figure’s announced objectives center on ramping up manufacturing for its humanoid robots and advancing Helix, and the company has highlighted two primary constraints: a critical shortage of data with needing more data and insufficient computing resources to accelerate development.

Unlike chatbots, robots cannot learn everything from raw information extracted from websites.Jensen highlighted the setup as a “robotics flywheel” where models train on Nvidia hardware; these developments however illustrate Nvidia's push into physical AI and the massive compute demands of humanoid robotics.

Nvidia eyes major investment in Figure AI robotics: Here’s what to know October 7, 2026.