By summer 2026, Figure will have almost none of its supply chain in China.
Predictor: Brett Adcock · ep#229 "The Humanoid Takeover: $50T Market, Figure's Full Body Autonomy, and Robots in Dorms #229" · source
Prediction text
By summer 2026, Figure will have almost none of its supply chain in China. | Um I think in like the next like I think by summer we'll have almost none of our uh supply chain in China anymore.
Watch events: Figure 03 shipment volume; BMW, 2nd customer deployment count
Verbatim quote
Um I think in like the next like I think by summer we'll have almost none of our uh supply chain in China anymore.
Predictor: Brett Adcock
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Milestone chain
- 2026-04-01 → 2026-07-31pendingFigure announces alternate harmonic-reducer supplier outside ChinaHow: Figure AI publicly names a non-China harmonic-reducer / strain-wave gear supplier (e.g., Harmonic Drive Japan, Nidec, US-domestic) for Figure 03 productionSource: ChinaPower CSIS / Discovery Alert — Suzhou Leaderdrive currently dominates harmonic reducers; reshoring named as bottleneckconf 40%Notes: Harmonic reducers are the highest-stakes Chinese-supply-chain dependency in humanoid robotics. A reshoring announcement is direct evidence.
- 2026-05-01 → 2026-08-31pendingFigure publishes US-only manufacturing announcement / supply-chain reshoring milestoneHow: Figure AI (Brett Adcock) publicly states on X, blog, or press release that the bulk of supply chain has been moved out of China by summer 2026, with named US/non-China suppliers (motors, sensors, batteries)Source: Brett Adcock public statement on Moonshots podcast — April 2026conf 55%Notes: Anchor milestone — direct verification of the prediction in target window.
- 2026-04-01 → 2026-12-31pendingChina industrial-robot exports continue +40% YoY while Figure scales US assemblyHow: China customs data shows continued robotics export surge while Figure's US-onshore narrative gains differentiationSource: Discovery Alert — China industrial robot exports +48.7% YoY 2025; net exporter transitionconf 85%Notes: Macro context — China dominance increases reshoring narrative value.
- 2026-05-01 → 2026-12-31pendingFigure decouples software stack (Helix model) from any China-resident weights/dataHow: Figure announces Helix neural network training/inference is fully US-hosted with no Chinese cloud or data center dependencySource: Figure AI — Helix policy announcement anticipatedconf 45%Notes: Software supply chain is part of broader 'supply chain' framing in Adcock's quote.
- 2026-06-01 → 2026-12-31pendingFigure 03 production scales at BotQ facility with non-China BOM disclosedHow: Figure publishes Figure 03 BOM disclosure or production tour showing >80% non-China components by part count or costSource: Figure AI corporate communications — anticipatedconf 30%Notes: BOM transparency would be the strongest possible verification.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 234_012 Anthropic revenue will cross OpenAI revenue in middle of 202 — Peter Diamandis | 67.1% | 0.500 | 0.050 | -0.089 |
| prereq | SEM_042 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finall — Kevin Weil | 73.8% | 0.500 | 0.050 | -0.060 |
| prereq | SEM_012 Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling — Jensen Huang | 75.0% | 0.500 | 0.050 | -0.054 |
| prereq | SEM_008 Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will co — Dario Amodei | 76.9% | 0.500 | 0.050 | -0.046 |
| prereq | 238_009 Recursive self-improvement is already happening now (no long — Alex Wissner-Gross | 78.1% | 0.500 | 0.050 | -0.041 |
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| prereq | 231_013 Math is cooked (will be solved), physics cooked, biology cha — Alex Wissner-Gross | 35.4% | 0.620 | 0.050 | -0.060 |
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Prerequisites (9)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | SEM_008 | Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will commence sometime in 2025. | AI | — |
| prereq | 238_009 | Recursive self-improvement is already happening now (no longer three years out) | AI | — |
| prereq | 234_012 | Anthropic revenue will cross OpenAI revenue in middle of 2026 | Markets/Stocks | — |
| prereq | SEM_012 | Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) across engineering. | AI/Manufacturing | — |
| prereq | SEM_042 | 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. | AI/Agents | — |
| killer | TK14 | Superbubble Pop (S&P 500 -40%, Moonshot Capital Evaporates) | — | — |
| killer | TK01 | AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | — | — |
| killer | TK03 | AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | — | — |
| killer | TK06 | China-Taiwan Military Conflict | — | — |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 235_030 | Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 2033. | Biotech/Longevity | — |
| prereq | 232_055 | We're exiting the industrial age permanently as recursive self-improvement unfolds. | AI | — |
| prereq | 241_043 | ASI will arrive within 2 years to 5 years to this next decade | AI | — |
| prereq | 231_013 | Math is cooked (will be solved), physics cooked, biology char broiled. | AI | — |
| prereq | CMQ_002 | By 2028, AI systems will reach 'independent researcher' level — driving autonomous scientific discoveries without human intervention. | AI | — |
Expected milestones (1)
| Expected by | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | [Geopolitics 2026-07] liens/UAPs in the next few months (rumo [229_004] Figure 03 shipment volume; BMW, 2nd customer deployment count | pending |
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Raw metadata
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