ROBOTNESS
Rival comparison

Figure AI vs Tesla

Figure AI and Tesla are direct rivals in the ROBOTNESS rival graph, as of Sep 30, 2026. Figure AI has raised $1.75B across 3 disclosed rounds. Tesla has no disclosed funding amount on record.

Data as of Sep 30, 2026. Included: company announcements, regulator filings and reported rounds; estimates and sample rows are excluded, and undisclosed amounts are never estimated.

Rival comparison
Direct rival
Figure AI
$1.75B
Disclosed funding
Tesla
Undisclosed
Disclosed funding

Why they are rivals

Humanoid hardwareFactory laborManufacturing deploymentEnd-to-end VLA
Figure AI and Tesla compared
  • Headquarters
    Figure AI
    United States · San Jose
    Tesla
    United States · Austin
  • Founded
    Figure AI
    No data
    Tesla
    2003
  • Stage
    Figure AI
    Series C
    Tesla
    Public · NASDAQ:TSLA
  • Sector
    Figure AI
    Humanoid
    Tesla
    Humanoid
  • Disclosed funding
    Figure AI
    $1.75B
    Tesla
    No data
  • Disclosed rounds
    Figure AI
    3
    Tesla
    0
  • Latest round
    Figure AI
    Series C, Sep 16, 2025
    Tesla
    No data
  • Latest valuation
    Figure AI
    $39B (Last disclosed valuation)
    Tesla
    No data
  • Robots
    Figure AI
    0
    Tesla
    0
  • Technologies
    Figure AI
    Robot Foundation Models · Vision-Language-Action Models · Electric Actuators · Imitation Learning · Teleoperation
    Tesla
    Robot Foundation Models · Vision-Language-Action Models · Battery Systems · Edge AI Compute · Electric Actuators · Synthetic Data Generation
  • Employees
    Figure AI
    No data
    Tesla
    No data
  • Stories
    Figure AI
    41
    Tesla
    12

Data as of Sep 30, 2026