Figure AI had one of its robots race a human to sort packages. It lost.

• Figure AI pitted an intern against a humanoid in a 10-hour-long package-sorting contest.
• The intern sorted 192 more packages than the robot, despite taking breaks.
• Figure’s robots have logged more than 120 hours of package sorting on a viral livestream.

The robots’ ability to operate for so long without failure was impressive, though the technology is not ready for deployment because of accuracy issues, said roboticist Ayanna Howard, dean of Ohio State University’s College of Engineering. These issues include packages placed barcode-side up and packages occasionally being knocked off the belt.

“We’re a long way away from a fully autonomous humanoid in a logistics center,” said Howard.