{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-27-figure-helix-02/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-27-figure-helix-02/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-01-27-figure-helix-02","date":"2026-01-27","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Figure Helix 02: one neural network controls a humanoid's whole body from pixels","deck":null,"takeaway":null,"category":"robotics","category_label":"Robotics","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Figure: Introducing Helix 02 - Full-Body Autonomy","url":"https://www.figure.ai/news/helix-02","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"figure.ai"},{"n":2,"title":"Figure on X: full 8-hr shift at human performance levels (2026-05-13)","url":"https://x.com/Figure_robot/status/2054603845393875452","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"x.com"},{"n":3,"title":"Interesting Engineering: Helix 02 upgrades humanoid control","url":"https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/figure-helix02-upgrades-humanoid-robot-control","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"interestingengineering.com"},{"n":4,"title":"eWeek: Figure launches Helix 02","url":"https://www.eweek.com/news/figure-helix-02-humanoid-robot-autonomy/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"eweek.com"},{"n":5,"title":"Interesting Engineering: Helix-02 robots handle full 8-hour work shifts","url":"https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/figure-helix02-humanoid-robots-8-hour-shifts","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"interestingengineering.com"},{"n":6,"title":"Tech Times: Figure's Helix-02 robots complete full 8-hour autonomous shifts","url":"https://www.techtimes.com/articles/316632/20260514/figure-ais-helix-02-robots-complete-full-8-hour-autonomous-shifts-humanoid-race-intensifies.htm","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"techtimes.com"},{"n":7,"title":"YouTube (Figure): Introducing Helix 02","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQsvTrRTBRs","type":"video","group":"reactions","domain":"youtube.com"}],"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Figure AI"],"title":"Figure Helix 02: one neural network controls a humanoid's whole body from pixels","summary":"On 2026-01-27 Figure released Helix 02, a single visuomotor network that maps Figure 03's cameras, touch and proprioception to every actuator; it unloaded and reloaded a dishwasher across a full kitchen in a 4-minute autonomous run, which Figure calls the longest-horizon, most complex autonomous humanoid task to date.","key_facts":["Adds System 0: 10M-parameter learned whole-body controller at 1 kHz, trained on 1,000+ hours of retargeted human motion and 200,000+ parallel simulated environments","System 1 at 200 Hz produces full-body joint targets; System 2 handles semantics and language","Dishwasher unload/reload: ~4 min end-to-end, walking + manipulation + balance, no resets or human intervention","First Figure policies using Figure 03 palm cameras and tactile sensing","2026-05-13: Figure livestreamed a team of Figure 03 robots sorting barcoded packages on conveyors for a full 8-hour shift, fully autonomous on Helix-02 and swapping in and out of charging stations; Figure claims 'human performance levels' (company claim, not independently measured)","Figure: 'first demonstration of such long horizon, end-to-end pixels-to-whole body control on a humanoid robot'"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["humanoid","vla","whole-body-control","figure-03","tactile"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nFigure extended its Helix VLA (Feb 2025, upper body only) to full-body control with a new low-level System 0 controller, running on the Figure 03 robot.\nIn May 2026 Figure followed with a demo of two robots tidying a bedroom and making a bed autonomously.\nOn 2026-05-13 Figure livestreamed its robots doing package sorting for a full 8-hour shift with no human intervention, rotating units through charging stations. Figure says they worked at human speed. That is a company claim, and no throughput numbers were independently verified.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nIt was the first public case of a learned humanoid policy doing minutes-long household tasks end to end from pixels. 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