Figure releases Helix 2.5 for humanoid robots
Figure says its robots began useful work in 30 rented Bay Area homes without additional training. A team member reports 56% zero-shot success with Index pretraining, versus 8% without it.
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Figure announced Helix 2.5 on September 17, 2026, saying its robots began useful work in 30 rented Bay Area homes without additional training.
A team member describes three full-body behaviors performed “zero-shot,” with no training data collected in any home. They say Helix 2.5 is the team's first model trained on Index. In a comparison using the same model, task-specific data and evaluation, they report 56% zero-shot success with Index pretraining, compared with 8% without it.
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