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Friday, 18 September 2026

Figure’s Helix 2.5 Completed Whole-Body Household Chores in 30 Unseen Homes

FigureAI 3 weeks ago 48

Figure introduced Helix 2.5, a humanoid robot neural network that performs full-body household tasks in homes it has never seen by using Index pretraining instead of environment-specific data. Helix 2.5 completed tidying living rooms, folding towels, and making beds in 30 unseen Bay Area homes with zero data collected in those locations, reaching 56% success versus 9% for a scratch-trained policy. The work shifts humanoid robotics toward zero-shot whole-body generalization driven by broad pretraining, reducing required task-specification data and making deployment less dependent on per-home retraining.

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