# Figure AI and Brookfield Announce Strategic Partnership to Build Humanoid Robot Pretraining Dataset

- Source: Figure AI
- Published: 2025-09-17T00:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/v9117dm21ab0ilu5lilr5emna
- Original: https://www.figure.ai/news/figure-announces-strategic-partnership-with-brookfield

## Summary

Figure AI announced a strategic partnership with Brookfield. Brookfield, which manages over 1 trillion USD in assets and owns more than 100,000 residential units, will help Figure build a real-world humanoid robot pretraining dataset, build the AI infrastructure needed to scale Helix (Figure's in-house vision-language-action model), and explore commercial deployment of humanoid robots.

## Why it matters

The official partnership announcement covers three areas: data scale, infrastructure, and deployment, letting readers understand how the data sources support scaling Helix.