Figure AI’s F.03 humanoid robot lost a live-streamed 10-hour package sorting contest to a human intern.
The intern, named Aime, finished 192 packages ahead of the company’s flagship machine.
Figure AI’s “Man vs. Machine” Results Are Out
Figure AI organized the “Man vs. Machine” challenge to see who would win between AI and a human. According to CEO Brett Adcock, the task required each side to detect a barcode, pick up a package, and place it barcode-down on a conveyor belt. Both ran the same routine continuously over the 10-hour window.
Aime received meal breaks and paid rest breaks under California labor law. Notably, the humanoid overtook the human around hour five after the competitor took a bathroom break.
Nonetheless, the human ultimately emerged victorious. Aime sorted 12,924 packages, while the F.03 logged 12,732.
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The intern finished at 2.79 seconds per package. The F.03 logged 2.83 seconds per package, a small per-package deficit. It’s worth noting that the contest was a single shift.
Aime reported blisters on his fingers and described his left forearm as feeling broken by the end. The F.03, by contrast, can run continuously across shifts, so a human lead over 10 hours may not extend to a full workweek.
Still, the results suggest blue-collar workers may still hold a slim edge in physical tasks. The picture for office workers looks more immediate.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman forecasted that AI will automate most desk-based professional work within 12 to 18 months. He named lawyers, accountants, project managers, and marketers as vulnerable.
“White-collar work, where you’re sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person — most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months,” he said.
The contrast is sharp. A humanoid robot still loses a four-hundredths-of-a-second race against a tired intern, while software agents are already chipping away at knowledge work.
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