Figure Helix 2.5: humanoids do chores zero-shot in 30 never-seen homes
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- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra140 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.579 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen170 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7109 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 79 days before it.
Key facts
- 30 unseen Bay Area homes; 420 trials across 3 whole-body tasks; 56% zero-shot success (237/420)
- Baseline without Index pretraining: 9%
- Used half as much robot adaptation data as Helix 02
- No single evaluation task >1.90% of pretraining data
- Human-to-robot transfer scaling law: forecasting error 0.54% across an 8x data range
- Figure committed $3.5B of compute for Helix training (partnership with Nscale, early Sept 2026)
What happened
Figure rented 30 homes and sent Figure 03 robots running Helix 2.5 in cold. Tasks: tidy a living room (13-15 toys into a basket), fold all towels, and make a bed (pillows placed, comforter corners aligned and smoothed). The key variable was initialization from a checkpoint pretrained on Index human video. Figure also reported a predictable scaling law for human-to-robot transfer.
Why it matters
This is among the strongest public evidence that robot foundation models scale with human video, and that humanoids can generalize to unseen real homes — a core prerequisite for home robots. Results are company-reported.
Sources
4 sources from 4 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
4 sources: 1 primary, 2 press, 1 reaction
Primary
- Figure: Helix 2.5 — Zero-Shot 30-Home Generalizationfigure.ai, official
Press
- The AI Insider: Figure unveils Helix 2.5theaiinsider.tech, press
- Tech Times: Index pretraining yields sixfold leaptechtimes.com, press
Reactions
- YouTube (Figure): Helix 2.5 30-Home Generalizationyoutube.com, video
Changes
- Linked Helix 02 entry (Figure Helix 02: one neural network controls a humanoid’s whole body from pixels); model page Helix 2.5
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