Figure AI Is Leasing Humanoid Robots. The Future Rhymes with Sharebot.
Brett Adcock, the CEO of Figure AI, was asked last week where the company's humanoid robot would land first. Factory floor or living room?
His answer was the living room. And the price tag he floated would be familiar to anyone who has ever signed a car lease.
Around $600 a month. For a humanoid robot. In your home.
Bottom Line
Figure AI is preparing to lease its Figure 03 humanoid robot to households for roughly $600 a month, not sell it outright. The most advanced humanoid robotics company in America is choosing access over ownership as its first consumer move. That decision validates a thesis Sharebot has been building toward since day one: the future of robotics is rented, not owned.
## What Figure AI Actually Said
In a recent interview with Sourcery's Molly O'Shea, Adcock laid out a concrete near-term plan. Lease the Figure 03 to households. Plug it into a wall outlet. Let it dock, charge, fold laundry, run the dishwasher, and tidy up on repeat.
The number Adcock cited, around $600 a month, sits in the same neighborhood as a midrange car payment. Forbes reports that Figure's monthly production has climbed from roughly 60 units in February to 120 in March to 240 in April. The ramp is real. The hardware is shipping. The model is leasing.
Why Lease Instead of Sell?
The math on selling a $30,000 humanoid robot to a household breaks down fast.
Robotics moves quickly. The model that wows a buyer in 2026 will look outdated by 2028. Software updates, sensor improvements, and entire architectural redesigns will roll out faster than any homeowner can keep up with. Ownership locks the buyer into yesterday's robot. Leasing keeps them on the current generation.
Capital expenditure is the second wall. Most households cannot drop $30,000 on an experimental household helper. They can absorb $600 a month if it actually folds the laundry. The lease model converts an impossible upfront ask into a manageable monthly line item, which is how the world has already converted cars, software, housing, and tools.
That conversion is not a trend. It is the dominant pattern of the last twenty years.
## The Furnished Finder and Airbnb Lesson
Look at how housing access works today.
Airbnb proved that nightly rentals scale to millions of homes around the world. Furnished Finder proved that the 30 to 90 day stay, the medium term that both ownership and Airbnb miss, is a massive untapped middle layer. Long-term leases still anchor the bottom. Outright ownership still anchors the top.
Four durations. Four products. One housing market.
That gradient exists because life is not lived only in nights or only in years. Sometimes a traveling nurse needs three months in Boise. Sometimes a family wants a weekend in the mountains. Sometimes a tenant signs for a year. Sometimes a buyer commits forever.
Robots will follow the exact same gradient. A drone pilot needs a Matrice 4E for a single weekend shoot. A construction firm needs a quadruped for a 60-day jobsite. A household wants to test a humanoid for 90 days before signing the kind of lease Adcock is talking about. A research lab wants to own one outright.
Four durations. Four products. One marketplace.
Why Sharebot Was Built for All of Them
Sharebot has never been a one-duration platform.
A daily rental for the weekend project. A weekly rental for the renovation, the inspection job, or the wedding flyover. A monthly rental for the contractor running a long-term build. A short-term lease for the household trying out a humanoid before committing. A mid-term lease for the operator scaling up a fleet without taking on capex.
The platform does not pick a duration for the renter. It opens every door.
That is not a feature decision. It is a structural one. When the entire robotics industry is converting from ownership to access, the marketplace that handles every flavor of access becomes the default front door for the category.
What Figure AI Just Validated
A few things became undeniable last week.
First, leasing is the consumer entry point for advanced robotics. The most credible humanoid company in America said it out loud. Manufacturers are not going to fight the rental future. They are going to build into it.
Second, the capex problem is real even at $600 a month. Annualized, that is more than $7,000. Plenty of households will still want to try before they commit, rent for a stretch instead of a year, or share access with neighbors. The marketplace layer fills the room a single manufacturer cannot fill alone.
Third, the rental thesis extends to every robot, not just humanoids. Quadrupeds, drones, inspection bots, agricultural rovers, warehouse arms. Every category that crosses the consumer or small-business threshold will follow the same arc Figure just announced. Rent first. Buy later, maybe.
The Bigger Pattern
Cars went from owned to leased to ride-shared to subscribed. Software went from boxed licenses to SaaS. Housing layered Airbnb and Furnished Finder on top of long-term leases on top of ownership. Each industry took decades to compress.
Robotics will compress that same arc into a handful of years. Figure just fired the starting gun on the consumer leg of it.
The platform that lets anyone rent any robot, for any duration, from any owner, becomes the connective tissue. That is the playbook Sharebot has been running since the start. The validation just arrived from the most expected place imaginable, the company building the actual robot.
Open all the doors. The market will walk through every one of them.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much will Figure AI's humanoid robot cost?
Figure CEO Brett Adcock has indicated the company plans to lease its Figure 03 humanoid robot to households for around $600 a month, similar in structure to a car lease, rather than selling it outright.
Can you rent a humanoid robot today?
Consumer humanoid rentals are not yet broadly available. Figure AI's lease program is the first major announcement of a near-term consumer rental for a humanoid platform. In the meantime, marketplaces like Sharebot already offer rentals for quadrupeds, drones, and inspection robots.
What kinds of robots can you rent on Sharebot?
Sharebot is a peer-to-peer marketplace where owners list robots and drones for daily, weekly, monthly, and longer-term rentals. Categories include quadrupeds like the Unitree Go2 Pro, professional drones like the DJI Matrice 4E, and other robotics platforms across construction, real estate, agriculture, and inspection.
Why is leasing a robot better than buying one?
Leasing avoids the upfront capital cost, sidesteps obsolescence as the technology improves, and lets users access the latest hardware without long-term commitment. For most households and small businesses, the math on leasing or renting beats ownership during this stage of the robotics curve.
What is the difference between renting and leasing a robot?
Renting typically refers to short-duration access measured in days or weeks. Leasing usually refers to longer commitments measured in months or years, often with a fixed monthly payment. Sharebot supports the full spectrum, from a single-day rental to multi-month leases.
