Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock Says Company Is 'Building a New Species' in Humanoid Robot Push
Figure AI founder and CEO Brett Adcock said "We're building a new species here," a line TechRadar published on 20 September 2026 as its quote of the day, describing a vision of replacing manual labor with humanoid AI.
The line appeared in TechRadar's regular quote feature, which pairs a single statement from a technology figure with a short framing line. According to TechRadar, the quote was presented under the heading of an effort to substitute humanoid artificial intelligence for manual work, with Adcock's own words supplying the only direct statement from the executive in the item.
TechRadar's entry did not include further comment from Adcock or from Figure AI itself. It also did not set out a timetable, deployment plan, customer list or technical specification for any humanoid machine, and the publication did not report whether the phrase referred to a specific product milestone or to the company's broader positioning.
The piece was written by Keumars Afifi-Sabet, a freelance contributor to TechRadar and technology editor at Live Science. Afifi-Sabet has written for ITPro, The Week Digital and ComputerActive, and has worked as a technology journalist for more than five years, previously as features editor at ITPro, where he handled commissioning and publishing of long-form work in areas including AI, cyber security, cloud computing and digital transformation.
He is an NCTJ-qualified journalist who began in student media while studying biomedical sciences at Queen Mary, University of London, and later freelanced for The Independent, The Observer and Metro. His work was commended in the "Top Scoop" category at the 2017 NCTJ awards, and he is registered as a foundational chartered manager with the Chartered Management Institute, having qualified as a Level 3 team leader with distinction in 2023.
The quote of the day format places Adcock's statement in a running series of short, attributed remarks from figures across the technology industry, rather than in a reported interview or an earnings or product announcement. No corroborating statement from Figure AI, and no response from labor or industry groups, appeared in the TechRadar item.