The Compound and Friends · Monday, June 29, 2026
Andrew Kang described Figure AI's recent livestream of a humanoid robot sorting packages autonomously for eight days as a pivotal moment for the robotics industry. He likened it to the impact of ChatGPT, as it demonstrated the reality and capability of the technology to a broader audience.
“I don't know if you saw Figure AI's livestream, uh, was around one or two months ago that went pretty viral, where they had a humanoid robot doing, you know, logistics tasks, sorting packages, flipping them over, like the same way a human would. And it went out for 8 days straight.”
“And I think that was like a little bit of a mini ChatGPT moment where people started to realize, this is real. It wasn't controlled by a human. And it didn't, it wasn't some clip that was chosen out of a hundred clips or 100 takes, right? And that was the one that was posted on the internet. But it was working autonomously for a long time.”