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# Helix (Figure, v1)

Figure AI, Helix family. Status: legacy. Type: robotics model. Released: 2025-02-20.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| None (runs only on Figure robots; no public API or weights) |  |  | https://www.figure.ai/news/helix |

## Pricing

- Price not published.
- Last checked: not recorded

## Specs

- Input: text, image
- Output: action
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: no
- Licence: proprietary

## Where it stands

- Newer robotics models in the registry since its release: 29. The 5 newest:
  - Praxis-1 (2026-09-30) https://postcutoff.com/m/praxis-1/
  - Helix 2.5 (2026-09-17) https://postcutoff.com/m/figure-helix-2-5/
  - UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 (2026-09-10) https://postcutoff.com/m/unifolm-wla-1-0/
  - Skild S1 (Skild Brain) (2026-08-25) https://postcutoff.com/m/skild-s1/
  - Generalist GEN-1.5 (2026-08-19) https://postcutoff.com/m/generalist-gen-1-5/
- After it from Figure AI: Helix 02 (2026-01-27) https://postcutoff.com/m/figure-helix-02/
- Closed weights.

## What stands out

- Full upper-body humanoid control from a VLA (first): Continuous high-rate control of the whole humanoid upper body (wrists, torso, head, individual fingers) over a 35-DoF action space. Source: https://www.figure.ai/news/helix
- Dual-system architecture (S2 + S1): System 2: 7B VLM at 7-9 Hz for scene/language understanding; System 1: 80M-parameter visuomotor transformer at 200 Hz. Source: https://www.figure.ai/news/helix
- Multi-robot collaboration with one set of weights (first): Same model ran simultaneously on two robots collaborating on a shared grocery-storage task. Source: https://www.figure.ai/news/helix
- Fully onboard on embedded low-power GPUs (first): Runs entirely on the robot's embedded GPUs - Figure calls it the first VLA ready for commercial deployment this way. Source: https://www.figure.ai/news/helix

## Notes

'first' flags are Figure's own claims at announcement (2025-02-20). Superseded by Helix 02 (2026-01) and Helix 2.5 (2026-09). Never publicly available.

Sources: [Figure: Helix](https://www.figure.ai/news/helix).

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/figure-helix/