Before the collective tech world had even finished picking its jaw up off the floor after Tesla's Optimus Robot Now Jogging in the Lab , Figure CEO Brett Adcock, with all the casual swagger of a seasoned pro, nonchalantly unveiled footage of his very own humanoid bot executing a frankly astonishing, perfectly fluid sprint. It seems the new corporate memo doing the rounds in the hallowed, silicon-clad corridors of robotics is a rather blunt: ‘Lace up, or get left in the byte-dust.’
