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  "title": "Figure described its F.03 battery design and certification path for a future humanoid platform",
  "summary": "Figure described F.03 battery development on July 17, 2025, including a 2.3 kWh pack and a certification process, while separating targets from completed certification.",
  "language": "en",
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    "name": "Rangoon Editorial",
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    "label": "Agent systems",
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    {
      "slug": "figure",
      "label": "Figure",
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    {
      "slug": "robotics",
      "label": "robotics",
      "url": "https://rangoon.ai/insights/tags/robotics/"
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    {
      "slug": "physical-ai",
      "label": "physical AI",
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  "dates": {
    "published": "2026-10-24",
    "updated": "2026-10-24",
    "event": "2025-07-17"
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  "event_source_id": 1,
  "retrospective": true,
  "reading_minutes": 3,
  "takeaways": [
    "Figure described F.03 as a 2.3 kWh battery development program for its next platform.",
    "The company said the pack was in process for specified safety certifications.",
    "A test claim or certification process does not establish fleet reliability or finished-robot availability."
  ],
  "source_note": "Historical reporting: Figure dated its F.03 battery-development post July 17, 2025. The March BotQ post supplies official manufacturing context. The records establish Figure’s stated pack design, test and manufacturing approach; they do not establish broad certification completion, fleet reliability, real-world runtime for every workload, or commercial availability of a finished robot.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "title": "Figure: F.03 battery development",
      "url": "https://www.figure.ai/news/f-03-battery-development",
      "published": "2025-07-17"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "title": "Figure: BotQ, a high-volume manufacturing facility for humanoid robots",
      "url": "https://www.figure.ai/news/botq",
      "published": "2025-03-15"
    }
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    "alt": "Original robotics explanatory diagram, Battery boundary. Labels: Cells, BMS, Cooling, Pack, Test, Robot. Source boundary: dated primary release reporting; original editorial analysis.",
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    "caption": "Battery boundary. Original Rangoon explanatory diagram: Source boundary: dated primary release reporting; original editorial analysis. No vendor interface, photograph, measurement result, or endorsement implied.",
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  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "event",
      "url": "https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-figure-f03-battery-development-july-2025/#event",
      "heading": "F.03 was a battery-development disclosure for a future robot platform",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Figure’s July 17, 2025 post presents the F.03 battery as part of its next humanoid platform. It gives a stated 2.3 kWh capacity, describes in-house design and manufacturing, and lists goals for runtime, charging, cost and safety. This is a component-development event. It does not mean a finished Figure 03 robot was generally available on the post date, nor that every battery had completed a production acceptance process. Battery capacity also cannot by itself predict a robot’s real working duration: runtime depends on task motion, payload, sensing, compute, temperature, charging behaviour and other system loads. The source supports Figure’s stated engineering direction, not a universal operating promise."
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    {
      "id": "safety",
      "url": "https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-figure-f03-battery-development-july-2025/#safety",
      "heading": "The post distinguishes safety design and certification work from a completed certification result",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Figure describes layers of battery protection and says F.03 was in process to be certified to UN38.3 and UL2271. “In process” matters. It records a certification path and a stated test objective rather than a public certificate for every production pack. The post also describes fault-injection testing and thermal-runaway containment design, but vendor test descriptions do not replace an independent report detailing samples, protocols and pass criteria. A battery system is only one part of safe robot operation; charging hardware, software limits, mechanical packaging, maintenance and the deployment environment also affect risk. The archive therefore retains the engineering details while avoiding a claim that the entire humanoid had already received a completed, general safety approval."
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    },
    {
      "id": "manufacturing",
      "url": "https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-figure-f03-battery-development-july-2025/#manufacturing",
      "heading": "BotQ context explains the intended production setting without proving output",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Figure’s March BotQ announcement says its first manufacturing line was planned for up to 12,000 humanoids annually and described process systems for traceability and testing. The July battery post says F.03 was designed to fit that manufacturing approach. Together, the records show an intended connection between component design and a proposed production system. They do not show a battery output count, pack yield, warranty history or a fleet of robots in customer hands. In-house manufacturing can support iteration and traceability, but it does not eliminate cell supply, test, assembly or field-service dependencies. The event remains a dated battery-development release, not a completed factory-performance report."
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      "id": "boundary",
      "url": "https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-figure-f03-battery-development-july-2025/#boundary",
      "heading": "Pack specifications, certification and robot deployment need independent records",
      "paragraphs": [
        "The sources establish Figure’s announced capacity, charging and protection design, alongside a stated manufacturing context. They do not establish that all F.03 packs met the same results in independent testing, that a finished robot operated for a stated duration at a customer, or that certification work had completed. No public record here supplies a repair rate, degradation curve, charging-cycle count or an incident history. Those details are essential for moving from a promising pack design to a reliability conclusion. This archive keeps the claim tight: Figure disclosed a battery programme and its stated targets. Future production, certification and field-operation milestones should each retain their own dates and evidence."
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