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Trevor Mogg @ Digital Trends · 12/14/2025 21:00 EDT

Watch this humanoid robot power through an hour of sorting packages

If you’ve nothing better to do in the run-up to Christmas, then how about enjoying a mesmerizing hour-long video of a humanoid robot sorting packages? The clip was posted by the founder and CEO of Figure AI, the California-based company behind the Figure humanoid robot. Brett Adcock was responding to a post on X by ...

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