Figure Helix 02 tidies living room

Figure is making a stronger case that embodied AI progress now comes from scaling data and whole-body neural control, not piling on brittle robotics heuristics.

• –The remote-control moment is flashy, but the bigger story is combined locomotion, tool use, bimanual manipulation, and in-hand reorientation in one continuous task.
• –Figure says this living-room routine used no new algorithms, only more training data on top of the Helix 02 architecture it introduced in January.
• –The demo builds on Figure 03 hardware upgrades like palm cameras and tactile sensing, which make close-range grasping and precise button presses more plausible.
• –Skepticism around humanoid demos is still warranted, so the next milestone is repeatability and broader third-party validation rather than another viral clip.