Social RoboticsFigure unveils Helix 02 for whole-body humanoid autonomy
Figure's new vision-language-action system controls walking, balance and manipulation with a single network.
Figure introduced Helix 02, extending its Helix model from upper-body control to the whole robot. The company showed a Figure 03 humanoid autonomously unloading and reloading a dishwasher across a full kitchen for about four minutes without resets, and said a new learned whole-body controller replaced a large body of hand-written code. Tactile fingertips and palm cameras enabled fine tasks such as picking out a single pill. Figure described the results as early, but the release shows how vision-language-action models are being pitched as the route to humanoids that can work in homes alongside people.
Source: Figure (company announcement)
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