Nscale and Figure partner to deploy AI in humanoid robotics

LONDON, Sept. 3, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- Nscale, a full-stack AI cloud platform, has announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Figure, a leading humanoid robotics company. The partnership aims to deploy NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform with up to 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs, with the initial rollout set for the second half of 2027 in Barstow, Texas. The agreement includes an initial $3.5 billion commitment in compute and plans to scale to over $6 billion.

As part of the partnership, Nscale will become a shareholder in Figure and will act as its preferred compute provider, powering the next generation of Figure’s Helix models and humanoid robotics. The collaboration highlights both companies' commitment to advancing physical AI, a rapidly growing frontier in the AI industry.

"We're excited to partner with Figure as physical intelligence becomes AI's next frontier," said Josh Payne, CEO and Founder of Nscale. "We've seen incredible growth with inference and agentic AI, and Figure is pushing the boundaries of AI even further. We're proud to be enabling the future of AI robotics together."

The strategic investment by Nscale in Figure underscores the shared approach to vertically integrated AI. Nscale will provide the power, compute platform, and orchestration layer, while integrating NVIDIA's advanced AI infrastructure to ensure efficient and high-performance model operations. The partnership also includes plans to explore the potential for scaling Nscale's supply chain with humanoids.

"Nscale and Figure have activated the robotics flywheel," said Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "Training Figure's models on NVIDIA Vera Rubin through Nscale's AI cloud, validating them in NVIDIA Isaac Sim, and deploying them on NVIDIA GPUs in Figure's robots. This is the physical AI flywheel that will accelerate the path from models to robots in the world."

Brett Adcock, Founder and CEO of Figure, added, "To bring humanoid robots to every home in the world, we are largely constrained by data and compute. Our AI model, Helix, becomes more capable the same way every learned system does: with more data and compute. Today we're excited to partner with Nscale to bring the compute required to make this vision a reality."

Nscale is positioned as a full-stack AI cloud platform, bringing together software, compute, and power in a vertically integrated offering. The company’s mission is to build the engine of superintelligence and enhance access to the benefits of advanced AI for enterprises, governments, and the communities that depend on them.

Figure, headquartered in San Jose, CA, is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The company’s goal is to ship humanoid robots with human-level intelligence, capable of performing a variety of tasks in both industrial and home markets.

Through this partnership, both companies aim to accelerate the development and deployment of advanced AI and humanoid robotics, positioning them at the forefront of the physical AI revolution.