Whistleblower says Figure robot gouged steel door, warns of skull-fracture risk
S2 · not documented · Figure AI
Record
| Company | Figure AI |
| Industry | Humanoid robots |
| Type(s) | malfunction |
| Date | not documented (date not documented) |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | (minor injury or single-unit damage) |
| Scale | 1 unit (test malfunction) |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verified flag | Cited source on file; not independently re-verified |
Summary
Figure AI's former head of product safety filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit alleging the company's humanoid robot moved at 'super-human speed' and once carved a quarter-inch gash into a steel refrigerator door during a test malfunction, with measured impact forces he said exceeded twice the force needed to fracture an adult human skull.
Primary source
Publisher: Interesting Engineering · Retrieved: 2026-09-16
Supporting source rows (1)
| Date | Supporting source row | Publisher | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| not documented | Whistleblower says Figure robot gouged steel door, warns of skull-fracture risk | Interesting Engineering | Interesting Engineering |
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