Figure has been livestreaming an eight-hour "shift" of autonomous robots sorting packages in a factory, and it is soothing, unsettling, and impressive. It is almost algorithmic ASMR, as one YouTube viewer said. The sorting is fluid, dextrous, and agile, more human than humans in many ways.
Why is this important? Because it shows how much further along such tools are than people realize, and suggests societal, economic, and investment implications far beyond Claude Code for Excel, etc.