Figure AI Inc.'s former head of product safety claims he was abruptly fired days after raising safety concerns to company executives about its humanoid robots.
Robert Gruendel accuses Figure AI of dismissing several of his safety concerns and risk reduction proposals during his tenure due to the company’s goal of rapidly bringing a humanoid robot to market, according to a complaint filed Nov. 21 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
Figure AI is building general-purpose humanoid robots with a goal to deploy them globally to solve labor shortages in the workforce and assist in the ...
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