{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-17-figure-helix-2-5/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-17-figure-helix-2-5/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":"2026-09-17-figure-helix-2-5","date":"2026-09-17","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Figure Helix 2.5: humanoids do chores zero-shot in 30 never-seen homes","deck":null,"takeaway":null,"category":"robotics","category_label":"Robotics","importance":5,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Figure: Helix 2.5 — Zero-Shot 30-Home Generalization","url":"https://www.figure.ai/news/helix-2-5-zero-shot-30-home-generalization","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"figure.ai"},{"n":2,"title":"The AI Insider: Figure unveils Helix 2.5","url":"https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/09/17/figure-unveils-helix-2-5-with-zero-shot-humanoid-generalization-across-30-homes/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"theaiinsider.tech"},{"n":3,"title":"Tech Times: Index pretraining yields sixfold leap","url":"https://www.techtimes.com/articles/327753/20260919/figure-ai-helix-25-enters-30-homes-cold-index-pretraining-yields-sixfold-leap.htm","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"techtimes.com"},{"n":4,"title":"YouTube (Figure): Helix 2.5 30-Home Generalization","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJpM_2a1zrE","type":"video","group":"reactions","domain":"youtube.com"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Figure AI"],"title":"Figure Helix 2.5: humanoids do chores zero-shot in 30 never-seen homes","summary":"Figure's Helix 2.5 (2026-09-17) completed 237 of 420 trials (56%) of tidying, towel folding and bed making in 30 rented Bay Area homes it had never seen, with no data from those homes; the same model trained from scratch (no Index human-video pretraining) managed 9% — a 6x gain from pretraining on human video.","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)"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["humanoid","generalization","robot-learning","vla"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nFigure 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).\nThe key variable was initialization from a checkpoint pretrained on Index human video. Figure also reported a predictable scaling law for human-to-robot transfer.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nThis 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. 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