Brookfield Asset Management is in the process of launching an AI infrastructure strategy.

Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. BAM-T is partnering with California-based company Figure AI Inc. to help train and develop humanoid robots, then put them to work in homes and commercial settings.

Figure is an artificial intelligence robotics company that is working to build autonomous, humanlike robots that it hopes will have human-level intelligence and the skills to work on an assembly line or fold laundry.

Its partnership with Brookfield has several facets, and the Toronto-based asset manager invested in Figure’s latest funding round, which was announced Tuesday and raised more than US$1-billion, giving the private company a US$39-billion valuation.

Brookfield will help Figure develop wh

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