In 2026, Bay Area single-family medians have generally sat between $1.27 million and $1.45 million, with San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties often much higher. Furnished or short-term whole-house rentals commonly run several thousand dollars a month. Recent median household income in the region is about $137,000; the San Jose / Santa Clara area is higher, often cited around $165,000–$167,000. In the more expensive counties, four-person area median incomes commonly fall between $160,000 and $205,000.
Figure has floated a possible future home lease of about $400–$600 a month. Against Bay Area house cleaning, that is roughly the monthly cost of a mid-priced recurring cleaner. The robot only covers making beds, folding towels, and tidying living rooms, and it finishes the full job about 56% of the time, so household ROI is negative. At list performance, that is about 4.5 useful household hours a week; at 56% success, you need closer to eight hours of runtime to net the same finished work. The lease is only about 5% of median household income, so the time leverage is larger for high-wage households.
The piece to watch is Index, Figure’s own data-collection platform.
It is not another short-video app. It is the supply line for Helix: ordinary people film first-person labor on their phones — making beds, folding laundry, stocking shelves, cooking, cleaning — Figure pays them, the footage goes into the corpus, and that corpus pretrains the humanoid.
When Figure took Index public on August 25, 2026, it reported 264,000 downloads across 108 countries, more than 44,000 weekly active creators, more than 16 million videos, $15 million already paid out, and about 35 minutes of video ingested every second — roughly 4.9 years of human work uploaded each day. Per 1,000 hours collected, the company said the set contained about 373 unique tasks, 1,146 unique objects, and 116 unique environments.
中文: 2026年，旧金山湾区独户住宅的中位数通常在127万至145万美元之间，而旧金山、圣马特奥和圣克拉拉县的中位数通常要高得多。装修或短期的全屋租赁通常每月花费数千美元。该地区近期家庭收入中位数约为13.7万美元;圣何塞/圣克拉拉地区较高，通常约为16.5万至16.7万美元。在较昂贵的县，四人区的中位收入通常在16万至20.5万美元之间。
图已提出未来可能每月约400至600美元的房屋租赁。与湾区房屋清洁相比，这大致相当于一家中等价位的定期清洁工的月度费用。机器人仅覆盖床铺、折叠毛巾和整理客厅，约56%的时间完成完整工作，因此家庭投资回报率为负值。在列表性能下，每周约4.5个有用的家庭工作时间;成功率为56%，需要接近八小时的运行时间才能完成相同的工作。租赁权仅占家庭收入中位数的约5%，因此高薪家庭的时间杠杆更大。
值得关注的是Index，这是Figures自己的数据收集平台。
它不是另一个短视频应用。这是Helix的供货线:普通人用手机拍摄第一人称劳动——制作床铺、折叠衣物、袜子架子、做饭、打扫——图片支付，录像进入语料库，该语料库预应人形。
图于2026年8月25日将Index公之于众，报告在108个国家下载量达到26.4万次，每周活跃创作者超过4.4万次，视频超过1600万次，已支付1500万美元，每秒约35分钟视频被录用——每天上传约4.9年的人类作品。每收集1000小时，该公司表示该套装包含约373项独特任务、1146件独特物品以及116种独特环境。
